Promotion of Brazilian Popular Music to the Nobility

The last two articles concentrate on two major features that have a pivotal role in forging both the Brazilian self-identity and the image of Brazil in abroad. One of these key features is samba (in the article of Vassili Rivron), the other is football (by José Sergio Leite Lopes). These texts demonstrate that the identity-politics leading to the high esteem of hybridity are encouraged by the state as well.