Edison de Souza Carneiro (12 August 1912 – 2 December 1972) was a Brazilian writer, historian and ethnologist who specialized in Afro-Brazilian culture.

[8] The growing literature, both scholarly and popular, helped document Candomblé while contributing to its greater standardization.

[9] He would later be invited by Dorothy B. Porter, alongside statesmen such as Kwame Nkrumah and Eric Williams, to give lectures at Howard University.

[10] Carneiro, along with Solano and Margarida Trindade, would co-found the Teatro Popular Brasileiro (TPB), a popular theater group inspired by Brazilian Black and indigenous cultural traditions.

[13] This letter came to meet a series of circumstances that made traditional urban samba not only revalued in different Brazilian cultural circles, but also started to be considered by them as a kind of "counter-hegemonic" and "resistance music" in the Brazilian music scene.