Um dos campos de estudos mais férteis das últimas décadas é o resgate da história dos africanos e seus descendentes e a valorização da cultura e tradições negras no Brasil. Resultado do "II Seminário História Social da Língua Nacional", realizado na Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa em outubro de 2010, este livro discute questões da diáspora africana relacionadas ao processo histórico-social da língua nacional, considerando o tráfico de escravos e as redes do mundo atlântico como travessia de h...

Powerful Frequencies details the central role that radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. In Intonations, Marissa J. Moorman examined the crucial relationship between music and Angolan independence during the 1960s and ’70s. Now, Moorman turns to the history of Angolan radio as an instrument for Portuguese settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcol...

Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format.Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues that it was in and through ...