SAMBAS FROM BLACK HAPPINESS
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The article analyzes the way in which samba is signified as an instance of happiness, focusing on the lyrics of songs performed and/or composed by Candeia, Dona Ivone Lara, Jovelina Pérola Negra, Marku Ribas and Paulinho da Viola. The methodological framework considers sambas as and in black con/texts. The significance of samba is identified as a possibility for invention and meetings around the city; as an imperative of joy that challenges sadness and as a temporal movement of living. In this sense, it opens up reflection on the conceptual and imaginative importance of samba, as a black cultural practice, in the ways of meaning of life and experience in the city, in its relational, emotional and community contours and complexities. They are expressions of happiness, based on black existences, that create a happy black city (black happiness) of resistance in the racialized social and urban formation.
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