As Paparutas

As Paparutas

From: Ilha do Paty, Bahia, Brasil.
Style: samba de roda
E-mail: aspaparutas@aspaparutas.com


The Ilha do Paty was once the location of a quilombo (village or collection of villages founded by runaway slaves from the region's numerous sugarcane plantations), and the quilombo continues there to this day (although, like Brazil's other quilombos, it is no longer known as such, the currently used term being remanescente do quilombo ("remains of a quilombo"). In English that sounds dead, and these places are very much alive.