Brazil in France, 1922: An Anthropological Study of the Congenital International Nexus of Popular Music

[...]Brazilian popular music, since its very inception, has been a crucial dialogical system through which the various segments of Brazilian society could converse about the country and the world, negotiate positions, and, typically, discuss identities. [...]my recent work1 has taken as a starting point the suggestion that in the 19305, at the same time that Carioca samba became Brazil's emblematic national popular music, Argentine tango was undergoing a similar phenomenon (Grünewald 1994), and that the two events were symptomatically simultaneous with the disappearance in Brazil of the so-called tanguinho or Brazilian tango (Tinhorão 1991, 97-102). The trip and the debate it generated were the culmination of a movement that began in 1919, with the foundation of Les Batutas. See, respectively.