Title: Disappointing for the Music Fan
Product review: In my opinion, the author is an outsider who never really gets fully inside Mangueira and the cultural context of the samba school (escola de samba). She is definitely a "gringa" who has much to learn and misinterprets much of what she sees. But the worst part of the book I think is her horrible reporting on "samba" itself -- the music, the dance and the history of the genre. She doesn't know what she's talking about, and even at one point reports that all the Brazilian idioms with a 2/4 meter are variations of the same thing! Please....
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