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.

Chico Science homage at Itaú Cultural

Sat, 2010-01-23 08:18 — John Murphy

Itaú Cultural, the cultural branch of the São Paulo bank, is hosting a month-long homage to the work of Chico Science in February. Link

Orkut

Mon, 2010-01-11 23:25 — John Murphy

I have a profile on Orkut now. Eu uso o orkut. Cheguei tarde mas cheguei.

Rabeca site

Thu, 2009-12-31 14:32 — John Murphy

A site in Portuguese about the rabeca and rabeca players:

www.rabeca.com.br

Thanks to Lula Marcondes for the link.

Trama label's YouTube channel

Mon, 2009-12-28 22:38 — John Murphy

The Trama label's YouTube channel has videos of current artists and archival videos of artists like Luiz Gonzaga:

Elis Regina:

and Chico Science & Nação Zumbi (includes interview excerpts with Chico Science):

Rádio UOL

Mon, 2009-12-28 11:06 — John Murphy

Rádio UOL is the music service of Universo Online, a major Brazilian portal.
You can hear full tracks of all sorts of music.

www.radio.uol.com.br

Alexander Dent's "River of Tears"

Mon, 2009-12-28 11:03 — John Murphy

I just started reading this:

Dent, Alexander Sebastian. 2009. River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press.

and it's fascinating. Publisher's site

Video formats

Wed, 2009-12-23 11:15 — John Murphy

Readers have told me they have problems playing the video files on this site.
I ran some tests.

The .m4v files play normally on these platforms:
Mac: QuickTime Player, iTunes, VLC, MPEG Streamclip
Windows XP: QuickTime Player, iTunes, VLC, MPEG Streamclip
Ubuntu Linux: VLC, MoviePlayer,

The .mp4 files play normally on these platforms:
Mac: QuickTime Player, iTunes, VLC, MPEG Streamclip
Windows: QuickTime Player, iTunes, VLC, MPEG Streamclip,
Ubuntu Linux: Firefox, VLC, MoviePlayer

It's São Paulo, people

Sat, 2009-08-22 15:53 — John Murphy

Otherwise well-informed people keep writing "Sao Paolo," like it's a city in Italy.

S-ã-0 (the tilde on the A is part of the correct spelling) P-a-u-l-o

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