Brazil

• “People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black” (washingtonpost)
• “Rio’s Race to Future Intersects Slave Past” (4/8/2014, NY Times)
• Grupo Afro Reggae
  • Favela to the World (UK)
• The Brazilian Sound text supplement
• The Brazilian Sound text blog
• allbrazilianmusic.com
• A Brief History of Brazilian Music (Bahia-Online)
• Interactive map of Brazilian rabeca (fiddle)
• BBC documentary, A Tale of Four Cities: 1. Rock and Rio, 6. Salvador, 7. Reggae
• BBC documentary, Brasil Brasil: 1. Samba to Bossa, 2. Tropical Revolution
• Carmen Miranda
  • “O Que é que a Baiana Tem” (from Banana de Terra, 1939)
  • Aquarela do Brasil (from The Gang’s All Here, 1943)
• Donald Duck
  
  • Aquarela do Brasil (finale of the Disney film Saludos Amigos [Hello Friends], 1942)
  • The Three Cablleros (1944) (Bahia: 28:20, with Aurora Miranda)

Candomble

• Bahia-Online: Candomble
• Explanation of candomble drum rhythms
• John Bewaji, “Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief“

Bermibau/Capoeira

• Capoeirascience on youtube
• Capoeira songs by Mestre Suassuna (Real Brazil, 2012)
• Berimbau demo
• Capoeira in Bahia
• African roots
  • Balthazar João Tchatoka plays the m’bulumbumba (southern Angola)
  • Madosini (from Langa township outside Cape Town, South Africa)
• Baden Powell, “Berimbau” (English translation of lyrics)
• Gilberto Gil, “Domingo No Parque” lyrics and translation

Carnaval

• Official Rio Carnival site (Sambadrome page)
• Independent League of Escolas de Carnaval (Rio)
• Photos from Rio Carnival 2011
• Portela 2008 parade in Sambadrome
• Samba school (Wikipedia)

Samba drumming

• Instruments of the bateria
• Samba Batucada Batteria (Escola de Samba de Lima), outdoors and indoors
• Samba school rehearsal (documentary from Rio)
• Escola de Samba bateria (search results on youtube)
• A word about surdos
• Tamborim
• Pandeiro
• Cavaquinho demos: 1, 2 (go in 1 min.)
• Cuica: Marcos (Bahia), Carlinhos (Rio)

Samba

• Afropop Worldwide
  • Rio 1: Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil
  • Rio 2: Samba Strikes Back
  • Marlon Bishop’s Rio blogs
    • Trem do Samba (7/12/12)
    • Red Bull (7/26/12)
    • Samba, the New Class (7/30/12)

Bossa Nova

• Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz, “Girl From Ipanema” (1964)
• Joao Gilberto, “Samba da minha terra“
• Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Aguas de Março” and lyrics 1 (with Jobim’s English rewrite);  2 (with clip of Jobim with Elis Regina);  3 (with Jobim singing solo);
  • “One Note Samba,” Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ella Fitzgerald

Tropicalia

• Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes: “Domingo no Parque” (live)

MPB

• Beth Carvalho, “Coisinha do Pai“
• Milton Nascimento, Cravo e Canela (1988, live)
• Edu Lobo, “Nego Maluca”: Rio 1993; original recording

Bahia

• Daniela Mercury, “O Canto da Cidade”
• Olodum with Michael Jackson, “They Don’t Care About Us” (1995)
• Olodum with Paul Simon, “Obvious Child” (1990)
• Olodum long drum outdoor performance at home
• Largo do Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia  (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Funk

• Favela on Blast (documentary)