BrazilMax Radio: The Best 100 CDs of Brazilian Popular Music |
An expert committee of Brazilian musicians and critics compiled a list of the 100 best CDs of Brazilian Popular Music. On this program, we feature songs from those CDs with commentary by André Domingues, coordinator of the project and editor of the book that came from it.
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BrazilMax Radio: 2006 World Cup Special |
BrazilMax Radio celebrates the World Cup. Our special World Cup program features only songs with football/soccer themes. Our guest is filmmaker Caito Ortiz, co-director of The Day Brazil Was Here, a documentary about the Brazilian national team’s visit to Haiti for a game in that strife torn Caribbean nation.
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A Magical Musical Tutorial in Rio de Janeiro |
Though I’ve never reached true proficiency in any instrument, I once fooled around as a punk drummer and I’ve taken guitar lessons on-and-off. So I jumped at the chance to learn about Brazilian rhythms from the pros during a recent visit to Rio de Janeiro.
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Música Sertaneja: What It Is – And Isn’t (Part One) |
“Música sertaneja” is the label for non-urban Brazilian music, or, more correctly, Brazilian music made far from the bigger Brazilian urban centers, sounding like the very life away from these bigger urban centers: bucolical, clean, tranquil – or, in more objective terms, music that is simple, naïf, devoid of much melodic or harmonic sophistication, and more natural, i.e., acoustic.
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The Best 100 CDs of Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) of All-Time |
Check out the list compiled by an expert committee of Brazilian musicians and critics.
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BrazilMax Radio: Guest Tatynne Lauria |
Our guest for this edition of BrazilMax Radio is Tatynne Lauria of KL Produções, the production company for “Clóvis: War and Fun in Carnaval,” a fascinating documentary film about a little known Carnaval ritual on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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