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.

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

Forró at the house of Arlindo dos Oito Baixos, jan. 21, 2001

Wed, 2009-08-19 09:31 — John Murphy

Unedited field research video of an evening at the forró at the house of Arlindo dos Baixos in Dois Unidos, Recife, Pernambuco. Dominguinhos appears in part 2.

Part 1 390MB

Part 2 506MB

Site for Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas

Fri, 2009-08-07 08:19 — John Murphy

This site has lots of material on the 1938 Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas, and has an English version.

www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/hotsites/missao/

Thanks to Lula Marcondes for the link.

Reprint

Thu, 2009-07-16 16:13 — John Murphy

The book is bring reprinted. The press will correct the typos and other errors, including those in the maps on pp. 2 and 64.
Here's a much better map.

7 hours and 27 minutes of Cavalo-marinho

Thu, 2009-05-07 16:13 — John Murphy

On December 1-2, 1990, with Siba Veloso, I made a video recording of Mestre Inácio's cavalo-marinho in Condado, Pernambuco. It's 7 hours and 27 minutes long. It's now available on this site in 8 segments. This is an important recording because it shows what a performance in a small town was like before the 1990s rise in interest in traditional music that led to a lot of stage performances of cavalo-marinho that were by necessity much shorter than this.

Kevin Cassidy's thesis on forró

Sun, 2009-05-03 19:56 — John Murphy

Kevin Cassidy posts his thesis on forró here. I haven't read it yet, but I am eager to because ch. 7 is entitled "In the “Field”: A Night at a Forró in Dois Unidos," and it deals with Arlindo's forró club in his backyard.

Cultura Digital

Sun, 2008-12-21 12:18 — John Murphy

While browsing for Brazil-related video at the Internet Archive, I found this two-part video Cultura Digital about the pontos de cultura project of the Brazilian ministry of culture. One aspect of the project is providing multimedia production systems that use free software. In Portuguese, with English subtitles. More info (in Portuguese) at the Ministry of Culture's Cultura Digital site.

Brazil Soul Power

Mon, 2008-12-15 08:56 — John Murphy

Lula Marcondes sent me this link for the site Brazil Soul Power, Thomas Fawcett's MA project at UT-Austin. Fascinating.

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