NYT Photo Gallery: Street Art in Brazil

I've been a fan of graffiti in Brazil for some time. So much great public expression!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/11/magazine/Look_Brazil.html

Five dozen Brazilian music documentaries online!

Pedro Consorte has collected links to a great trove of interesting films available online. Worth a look or several:

http://pedroconsortebr.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/documentarios-sobre-a-musica-brasileira-lista-completa/

NYT in Lapa

NYT checks in with Rio's live music scene. Frustrating that they cover a great topic like Brazilian music with a writer who's only familiar with bossa nova -- at one point he writes (Elba) "Ramalho turned out to be a well-known singer of forró."  And choro is never mentioned!

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/travel/moving-to-the-rhythms-of-rio.html

Dramatic protester photojournalism from São Paulo

Public awareness of demonstrations in Brazil is approaching the level of Turkey's weeks-old protest movement. Interesting video/photo combination puts you in the street with them.

http://petapixel.com/2013/06/17/a-first-person-view-of-photographing-the-protests-in-brazil/

Loving forró

Nice find today -- watch a short documentary on one of Brazil's most beloved musical traditions, the down-home, accordian-driven sound that almost sounds like its fresh from the bayou of Louisiana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H1IvQIqR0OM

(Activate subtitles by clicking the ‘caption’ button on the Youtube site.)

A gayer Brazil?

New York Times notes that Brazil is considering becoming the third Latin American country to recognize same-sex marriage, and Latin America in general just doesn't seem quite so macho any more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/opinion/how-latin-culture-got-more-gay.html

Monopolist ruling against Brazil's music royalties collectors

I've heard for years how corrupt the music business is in Brazil, even compared with it's less than stellar record everywhere else. Here's a taste via boingboing.