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BRAZIL -HUMANITIES
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AlterNETive (Brazil)
An alternative culture web page in Portuguese including music, poetry, cartoons, and a variety of other artful links. -
Arts and Humanities Research Initiatives- This project seeks to examine the legacy of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, one of the world’s most influential figures in modern art and design.
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Brazilian Studies Association - BRASA is an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who support and promote Brazilian studies in all fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences. BRASA is dedicated to the promotion of Brazilian studies around the world in general, and in the United States in particular.
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Jangada Brasil
Magazine on Brazilian folklore and culture. -
Jungle Drums - Jungledrums is the first Brazilian magazine in the UK published in both English and Portuguese, showcasing the Brazilian musical and cultural scene in London combined with a strong tourism section focusing on Brazil's fabulous landscapes and off the beaten track European destinations; always in a new and exclusive way. It also brings interviews with key cultural and political figures in Brazil featured alongside articles on relevant issues
Electronic journal dedicated to the different aspects of cultural productions. It is also an open space for debate, discussions, and promotion of the various forms of art.
Art
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Art & Cult
Contemporary Brazilian art and culture. -
Baroque Art: Thou Shall Not Steal Sacred Images - Article about a crime ring stealing colonial art pieces from churches and museums.
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Bitnik
A journal for modern art.
Authors/Literature
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Quilomb Hoje: literature, essays, poetry, fiction
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The Paraty International Literary Festival: Gringo Writers FLIP Out at the Fame Factor - Article on the fame of writers from Brazil and abroad in a country where reading is not extremely popular.
Cinema/Film
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Filming Jorge Amado - And all thanks to novelist Jorge Amado. The three directors each carried scripts based on stories by Brazil's most successful writer, who has long made Salvador both his setting and his home.
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The 1st Biennial Brazilian Studies Association Film Festival
Museums
Music
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Guilherme Vergueiro - Pianist, composer and arranger. Dedicated to the piano and samba.
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Improta Pushing Brazilian Jazz's Envelope
Gabriel Improta's music may owe something to Baden Powell's world, but he sets his own indisputably virtuosic guidelines. His music is full of revolving colors, emotional curves, and surprises. Improta's easygoing approach, however, conceals his enormous command of the contemporary classical medium. -
Neuma Gonçalves da Silva
"Tia Neuma" - Samba's First Lady who lives on Mangueira's Hill in Rio De Janeiro. She is clearly part of the Samba culture. -
Olodum: ngo from Bahia; theatre, music.
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When Brazilian Jazz Came to the US
Little did jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd and his friend saxophonist Stan Getz know that their 1962 album called Jazz Samba would create a bossa nova craze throughout the United States, a phenomenon that would generate many other historical albums and influence musicians and fans all over the world.