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Dorival Caymmi and the non-ephemeral possibilities of popular art: a discussion of Antonio Riserio's Caymmi: uma utopia de lugar

1995; University of California, Los Angeles; Volume: 24; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5070/m3241014449

0160-2764

Piers Armstrong,

Italian Literature and Culture

Caymmi is a less obscure figure to North Americans than might be thought, for he was one of the creative musical forces behind Carmen Miranda -that Portuguese-bom, Hollywood mythologized zany Latin-Lover-Lady with exotic fruit growing out of her hat.When the music is over one might well wonder just what that head-gear is ali about.As the litany of Aphrodisian paraphemalia above suggest, the Bahiana (a street vendor of savory Afro-Brazilian cuisine and a practicant of the Candomblé cult in Salvador) is truly a sassy specimen, but also the