SWING AFRO BAIANO: UMA PERSPECTIVA DE DANÇA POPULAR NA BAHIA

Abstract

Swing Afro Baiano emerged in the late 80s and emerged along with the musical movement called “Axé Music", thus being two major responsible for the success of the new format and proposal of the “soteropolitano” carnival, considered as the biggest street party in the world. This is the first dissertation to deal with the subject, among its main objectives it is in the struggle to allow another Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestation to be extinguished. Swing Afro Baiano was reduced to a gym modality, thus turning away from the cultural manifestations and crossings contained in this Dance. Since 2013 there has also been a business and capitalist action that has been taking over this Dance in order to obtain personal profits, for this purpose it has been investing in the extinction of “Swing Afro Baiano” and its various nomenclatures. This work goes beyond the academic limits, becoming a possibility of political, cultural, social and historical struggle, so hope that many others may emerge repairing yet another piece of our diaspora.