Culture

Candid Portrait

The editors of The Brazil Reader have chosen well. Articles, which may at first ...

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Bondo Wyszpolski
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Bang-Bang Book

Patrícia Melo has a stripped-down, straightforward style, and she pumps out words the way ...

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Bondo Wyszpolski
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Best-seller Books, Plays and Movies January 2002 A

By Brazzil Magazine RIO Se Correr o Bicho Pega, Se Ficar o Bicho Come(If ...

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Tales on a String

The cordel is not dead. Cordelistas are suffering the fate of all poets worldwide. ...

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Kathleen de Azevedo
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Perchance to Dream

January 2002 Music Perchance to Dream What to be, or not to be, will ...

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Bruce Gilman
Rita Peixoto and Carlos Fuchs CD

Independent in Rio – Part II

More and more artists are taking control of their own recordings. Rita Peixoto and ...

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Daniella Thompson
Dil Fonseca CD

Independent in Rio

When record companies view good music as a liability, artists have no choice but ...

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Daniella Thompson

Chico Lives

  For long considered a patrimony of Brazilian music, Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better ...

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Kirsten Weinoldt

Magic Marcos

Marcos Sacramento is creating new samba hybrids. Marcos Sacramento is breathing new life into ...

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Daniella Thompson

Plain João – The Man Who Invented Bossa Nova

He’s been called O Rei da Bossa, O Mito, Il Maestro Supremo, and O ...

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Daniella Thompson