Brazilian Popular Culture or the Curse and Blessings of Cultural Hybridism

Introduces a special section on Brazilian popular culture in historical perspective. Discusses how hybridity (both biological miscegenation and cultural hybridism) is at the very core of the way Brazil is constructed as a nation, considers some core aspects of creolisation in Brazil, and looks at the historical formation of Brazilian popular culture. Suggests that, since the creolisation process in the Americas has been characterised as one of the earliest examples of globalisation, the special section allows some crucial insights into much broader processes of social and cultural world history. (Quotes from original text)