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Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa by Niyi Afolabi (review)

Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa by Niyi Afolabi (review) Niyi Afolabi. Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa. New York: Pal- grave Macmillan, 2016. 288 pp. Ilê Aiyê is the oldest and most venerable bloco afro, a type of percussion-based performance group from Salvador, Bahia that pioneered a new sound, aesthetic, and discourse that revolutionized the Bahian carnival with a message of black pride. Ilê Aiyê (a Yoruba term meaning House of Life), was founded in 1974 in Curuzu (a neighborhood in the most populous district of the city, Liberdade) during the period of authoritarian rule. The military regime promoted the idea that Brazil was a “racial democracy,” a doctrine most associated with patrician intellectual Gilberto Freyre, while persecuting activists and intellectuals who de - nounced racial discrimination and inequality in Brazil. Founder and president Antônio Carlos dos Santos (known as “Vovô”) and his associates were influ - enced by the US Black Power movement, African liberation struggles, and local black culture, most notably the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, of which his mother, known as Mãe Hilda, was a venerated priestess. With the restoration to formal democracy in 1985, Ilê Aiyê consolidated its position as a leading cultural organization oriented toward black consciousness and anti-racism. By then, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Luso-Brazilian Review University of Wisconsin Press

Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa by Niyi Afolabi (review)

Luso-Brazilian Review , Volume 56 (2) – Jan 28, 2020

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Abstract

Niyi Afolabi. Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa. New York: Pal- grave Macmillan, 2016. 288 pp. Ilê Aiyê is the oldest and most venerable bloco afro, a type of percussion-based performance group from Salvador, Bahia that pioneered a new sound, aesthetic, and discourse that revolutionized the Bahian carnival with a message of black pride. Ilê Aiyê (a Yoruba term meaning House of Life), was founded in 1974 in Curuzu (a neighborhood in the most populous district of the city, Liberdade) during the period of authoritarian rule. The military regime promoted the idea that Brazil was a “racial democracy,” a doctrine most associated with patrician intellectual Gilberto Freyre, while persecuting activists and intellectuals who de - nounced racial discrimination and inequality in Brazil. Founder and president Antônio Carlos dos Santos (known as “Vovô”) and his associates were influ - enced by the US Black Power movement, African liberation struggles, and local black culture, most notably the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, of which his mother, known as Mãe Hilda, was a venerated priestess. With the restoration to formal democracy in 1985, Ilê Aiyê consolidated its position as a leading cultural organization oriented toward black consciousness and anti-racism. By then,

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