Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil Shaggy Shanahan (Contributor) Nothing is what it seems

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Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil Shaggy Shanahan (Contributor) Nothing is what it seemsIn November 1916, a young Afro Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple actclaiming ownership of a musical compositionset in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had