Download or read book Samba written by Alma Guillermoprieto and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This travel book explores the samba, with all its ritual, and through it presents a picture of Brazil. The author is a Mexican by birth and upbringing and a dancer by training. She recounts a Carnival season in Rio, offering an interpretation of the history and culture of black Brazilians, and the social and spiritual forces that are expressed in the driving beat of samba music and dance.