Part 2 of Samba, Soul and Civil Rights: A Treatise in Revolution explores how the soul music that drove the African American Civil Rights and Black Power Movements triggered a revolution in Black Brazil.
Did you know that many Afro-descendant groups throughout the Diaspora had parallel Freedom Movements? Black Brazilβs Movimento Negro is a primary example. The liberation images of the African American Black Power Movement, and the Movementβs soul music soundtrack, traveled down to Brazil and catalyzed the Black Rio Movement. Freedom fire spread throughout Brazil and in 1973 a group of Black Brazilian teenagers in Salvador Bahia took up the torch and launched a new Black revolution using Afro-Brazilian Samba. Tune in!
This broadcast of Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience originally aired on Sunday August 2, 2020 at 3pm EST on WOWD 94.3 FM Takoma Radio.
