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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute and the Program on Latin American and th
 e Caribbean are proud to host a screening of the 2017 film Tabom in Bahia 
 with co-director Juan Diego Diaz.&nbsp\;Tabom in Bahia documents a histori
 c three-week journey of Ghanaian master drummer Eric Odwarkei Morton to Ba
 hia\, Brazil\, in 2016. Morton is a member of the Tabom community—descenda
 nts of formerly enslaved Africans who returned from Bahia to Ghana in the 
 19th century and who continue to proudly celebrate their Brazilian heritag
 e. The film traces Morton’s preparations in Accra and his transformative e
 ncounters across Salvador\, Cachoeira\, Santo Amaro\, and Valença. Along t
 he way\, he meets capoeira and samba-de-roda masters\, Candomblé dancers\,
  musicians\, spiritual leaders\, carnival organizers\, educators\, and bla
 ck activists.In Bahia\, Morton is warmly embraced by an Afro-Brazilian com
 munity eager to reconnect with their ancestral roots. Through these exchan
 ges\, Morton not only experiences the rhythms of capoeira\, samba-de-roda\
 , samba-reggae\, ijexá\, and Candomblé\, but also shares agbe\, the Ghanai
 an-Brazilian musical tradition he commands. Tabom in Bahia is a vivid expl
 oration of cultural memory\, resilience\, and the enduring dialogue betwee
 n West Africa and Brazil.Juan Diego Díaz is associate professor of ethnomu
 sicology and director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the 
 University of California\, Davis. He researches musics of the Black Atlant
 ic\, with a focus on Brazil and West Africa. His books include Tabom Voice
 s: a history of the Ghanaian Afro-Brazilian Community in their Own Words (
 2016) and Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of 
 Africa in Brazil (OUP\, 2021). His work on transatlantic connections betwe
 en Brazil and West Africa is also featured in his documentary Tabom in Bah
 ia (2017)\, co-directed with Nilton Pereira\, and in the forthcoming book&
 nbsp\;Echoes of Brazil: The Musical Experiences of Brazilian Ancestry in W
 est Africa with OUP. A long-term capoeira angola practitioner and scholar\
 , he has published numerous articles about this artform and led capoeira a
 ngola university ensembles.&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Film | ‘Tabom in Bahia’ | Co-Directed by Juan Diego Diaz and Nilton
  Pereira (2017)
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan Institute and the Program on L
 atin American and the Caribbean are proud to host a screening of the 2017 
 film <em>Tabom in Bahia</em> with co-director<strong> </strong>Juan Diego 
 Diaz.&nbsp\;</p><p><em>Tabom in Bahia</em> documents a historic three-week
  journey of Ghanaian master drummer Eric Odwarkei Morton to Bahia\, Brazil
 \, in 2016. Morton is a member of the Tabom community<strong>—</strong>des
 cendants of formerly enslaved Africans who returned from Bahia to Ghana in
  the 19th century and who continue to proudly celebrate their Brazilian he
 ritage. </p><p>The film traces Morton’s preparations in Accra and his tran
 sformative encounters across Salvador\, Cachoeira\, Santo Amaro\, and<stro
 ng> </strong>Valença. Along the way\, he meets capoeira and samba-de-roda 
 masters\, Candomblé dancers\, musicians\, spiritual leaders\, carnival org
 anizers\, educators\, and black activists.</p><p>In Bahia\, Morton is warm
 ly embraced by an Afro-Brazilian community eager to reconnect with their a
 ncestral roots. Through these exchanges\, Morton not only experiences the 
 rhythms of capoeira\,<strong> </strong>samba-de-roda\, samba-reggae\, ijex
 á\,<strong> </strong>and Candomblé<strong>\,</strong> but also shares agbe
 <strong>\,</strong> the Ghanaian-Brazilian musical tradition he commands. 
 <em>Tabom in Bahia</em> is a vivid exploration of cultural memory\, resili
 ence\, and the enduring dialogue between West Africa and Brazil.<strong></
 strong><br></p><p><strong>Juan Diego Díaz</strong> is associate professor 
 of ethnomusicology and director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americ
 as at the University of California\, Davis. He researches musics of the Bl
 ack Atlantic\, with a focus on Brazil and West Africa. His books include <
 em>Tabom Voices: a history of the Ghanaian Afro-Brazilian Community in the
 ir Own Words </em>(2016) and <em>Africanness in Action: Essentialism and M
 usical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil</em> (OUP\, 2021). </p><p>His work
  on transatlantic connections between Brazil and West Africa is also featu
 red in his documentary <em>Tabom in Bahia</em> (2017)\, co-directed with N
 ilton Pereira\, and in the forthcoming book&nbsp\;<em>Echoes of Brazil: Th
 e Musical Experiences of Brazilian Ancestry in West Africa</em> with OUP. 
 A long-term capoeira angola practitioner and scholar\, he has published nu
 merous articles about this artform and led capoeira angola university ense
 mbles.&nbsp\;<strong></strong></p>
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