Music in Brazil John P. Murphy | Oxford University Press Global Music Series

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

Lula Marcondes sent these links to a BBC documentary on Brazilian music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7FC0jqBv4&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQgfTWDdtM&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0TyalSgmmQ&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7juINv2eCA&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cKujlmspQ&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ST5Umu88ko&feature=channel_page

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Newly added to the open access section.

Marpessa Dawn, the U.S.-born actress who played Eurydice in Orfeu Negro, died at her home in Paris, according to the New York Times. Bruno Melo, her co-star, died 41 days before she did.