Sambistas brasileiras em Chicago: so bos limites das expectativas do outro

• Autores: Bernadete Beserra
• Localización: Ra Ximhai: revista científica de sociedad, cultura y desarrollo sostenible, ISSN-e 1665-0441, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 41-55
• Idioma: portugués
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Brazilian dancers and Samba in Chicago: in the limits of the other expectations
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  • English

    This article is based on the story of Taís, a Brazilian dancer and samba entrepreneur in Chicago. It analyses how both samba and Brazilian samba dancers change in order to accommodate views and expectations of consumers and agents that make up the market of Brazilian culture in the city. Immigrant since the mid-1980s, Taís has gone around performing Brazilian dance to the �midwest� since the early 1990s. As she negotiates samba and Brazilian identities with different clienteles, she learns about the limits and possibilities of the exotic. In the body-to-body daily struggle for recognition and a place for Brazilian dance in the market - and eager to reconcile what most pleases the �other� with her own understanding and experience of Brazil - new ideas of Brazil and Brazilianness are constructed and disseminated in the United States as well as new relationships and alliances are established with other ethnic groups.

  • português

    A partir da história de Taís, sambista e empresária da dança brasileira em Chicago, este artigo reflete sobre os modos como o samba e as sambistas brasileiras se transformam para acolher os olhares e expectativas dos consumidores e agentes que compõem o mercado da cultura brasileira na cidade. Imigrante desde meados da década de 1980, Taís circula pelo �midwest� reconstruindo e negociando o samba com diferentes clientelas e com elas aprendendo sobre as possibilidades e limites do exótico. No corpoa- corpo travado para a conquista de mercado e reconhecimento -- e ansiosa por conciliar o que mais agrada ao outro com a sua própria compreensão e experiência de Brasil -- novas idéias de Brasil e brasilidade são construídas e difundidas nos Estados Unidos.