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Jongo, also known as caxambu or tambu, is a dance and musical genre of black communities from southeast Brazil.

Sources

  • Carneiro, Edison. “Samba de umbigada.” In: Folguedos Tradicionais. Rio de Janeiro: Funarte/INF, 1982 [1961].
  • Dias, Paulo. “A outra festa negra.” In Festa: cultura e sociabilidade na América Portuguesa, edited by I. Jancsó and I. Kantor. São Paulo, Brazil: Hucitec/Edusp/Fapesp/Imprensa Oficial, 2001.
  • Pacheco, Gustavo. “Jongos.” In: Colin Palmer (ed.) Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. New York: Macmillan, 2005.
  • Ribeiro, Maria de Lourdes Borges. O Jongo. Rio de Janeiro: FUNARTE/Instituto Nacional do Folclore, 1984.
  • Stein, Stanley J. Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 2nd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.
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