Welcome

author (L) sitting in with Arlindo dos Oito Baixos

This is the companion site for my book, Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, in the Oxford University Press Global Music series. It's intended for students and teachers who are using the book as well as general readers and Brazilian music fans. That's me in the photo, at left, sitting in with Arlindo dos Oito Baixos (him: cool and relaxed; me: concentrating like crazy in order to avoid pushing when I should pull and vice versa).

Here you will find text, audio, and video resources to supplement the book and my blog with news of current events in Brazilian music. If anybody's interested, I could also add a discussion forum.

This site is not to be confused with the official Oxford University Press Global Music Series companion site. Don't have a copy yet? Try the Oxford University Press catalog or amazon.

New Carmen Miranda DVD set

Tue, 2008-06-17 11:08 — John Murphy

This New York Times article gives a an overview of Miranda's career and describes a new Miranda DVD set:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/movies/homevideo/17dvds.html

Mestre Salustiano to perform in Rio de Janeiro

Thu, 2008-05-22 12:26 — John Murphy

Mestre Salustiano has his group A Rabeca Encantada (The Enchanted Rabeca) will perform in Rio de Janeiro.

http://www.caixacultural.com.br/html/main.aspx?idPrograma=440

Thanks to Jonathan Gregory for the link.

Cavalo-Marinho at the Festa do Divino

Mon, 2008-05-19 12:45 — John Murphy

Mestre Inácio participated in this event in May 2008, which was organized by Alício Amaral and Juliana Pardo. São Luiz do Paraitinga is a city in São Paulo state. Here's the site for the event.

User accounts change

Mon, 2008-03-24 08:16 — John Murphy

After I set it up so readers could request accounts, I started getting spam requests. You are welcome to request an account by sending me an email (be sure not to mention pharmaceuticals). Accounts are necessary for posting comments.

New essay in open-source section

Wed, 2008-03-19 13:55 — John Murphy

My essay on mangue beat and popular culture is now available in English and Portuguese.

Pernambuco CD; DJDolores; Nation Beat

Sun, 2008-03-09 14:43 — John Murphy

Brazilian music in the news:

Luaka Bop Pernambuco compilation:

Chicago Reader
New Times (Miami)
AllAboutJazz
NY Daily News

DJDolores's new CD "1 Real"
Guardian (UK)

Scott Kettner's Nation Beat
SF Bay Guardian

Korean jazz band version of The Girl from Ipanema

Thu, 2008-03-06 17:29 — John Murphy

While searching for Korean jazz, as I comment on a student thesis on that topic, I found this.


New videos and photos...

Sun, 2008-03-02 18:54 — John Murphy

...are linked to the open access page.

I support open access to research

Tue, 2008-02-19 16:32 — John Murphy

There's a new section of the site today: "Open access: articles, papers, photos, audio." Right now there's one conference paper that was written and delivered in Portuguese in 2002. Soon there will be more publications there in English.

I think the results of research, especially research supported by public funds, should be freely available. My two long research trips in Brazil were supported by a U.S. Dept. of Education Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Over the coming months and years I will be making articles, conference papers, photos, audio files, and other materials from my Brazilian research available on this site. Your comments are welcome.

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