Curations Out to These
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- Curation by: The Artist
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Samba de Lata
- City: Tijuaçu, Bahia
- Country: Brazil
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Tijuaçu is a village in Bahia, founded by runaway slaves and located in the sertão, the arid region beyond the Recôncavo (the lusher region around Bahia's Bay of All Saints, largely dedicated to raising sugarcane; it was from these plantations that slaves would run away into the interior).
During a particularly bad drought the women of the village would walk to area farms in search of water, bringing it back in large kerosene cans. It was on these walks they began utilizing the cans as drums, and singing. From this: samba de lata (can samba).
The northeast of Brazil is an area of people devoted to tradition, and this one has been kept alive by the children and grandchildren of the original practitioners.
My Media
- ▶ Website: http://www.sambadelata.com
▶ Brazil has something called "jeitinho" (zhay-TEEN-you), the "little way". In a land where the official way is often impossible, people get things done by other means.
▶ The matrix is jeitinho. It allows splendid Brazilian musicians to be discovered and accessed from everywhere. But to work for the Brazilians, it has to work for everyone.
▶ All explained inside the dot-defined window immediately below (curated artists below this window)... from Brazil, with love!
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Brazil has something called "jeitinho", the "little way". In a country where the official way is so often impossible, people have to be creative. Do end runs around problems and powers-that-be.
The matrix is jeitinho. All explained inside the dot-defined window immediately below. Matrix encompassed artists below the window.