316 p., Demonstrates how the lambada —a genre of electric guitar-based dance music consolidated in the port city of Belém, Pará in the 1970s— makes audible a history of mobile, cosmopolitan connections that transcend and transgress the boundaries of the Amazon region proper. These submerged "translaterai" links with the circum-Caribbean and the Brazilian Northeast challenge hegemonic constructions of Belém as a provincial outpost or pocket of exclusion "at land's end."
