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Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil [PDF]

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This paper analyzes the roots of variation in de facto institutions, within a constant de jure institutional setting. We explore the role of rent-seeking episodes in colonial Brazil as determinants of the quality of current local institutions, and argue ...
Rodrigo R. Soares   +2 more
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Spring Music Festival, Program, 2008

open access: yes, 2008
Program for the May 8, 2008 Spring Music Festival, "The Magic of Music," conducted by Lawrence ...
Music Department
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Constructing music culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This essay explores the creative possibilities of worldbuilding applied to music. It presents anthropological approaches to analysing music culture, and settles upon four main factors (meaning – situation – performance – content) as a basis for a ...
Jokela, Mikko
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Interpreting Brazilianness: Reception and Representation in the Brazilian Music Scenes of Toronto and Montreal

open access: yes, 2014
In Toronto and Montreal, Brazilian popular music performances constitute a context for intercultural encounter. Performances offer Brazilians the opportunity to present their culture of origin while emphasising their identification with it.
Mercier, Catherine G.
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Furtado, North and the New Economic History [PDF]

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Some parallels are drawn between Celso Furtado’s structural and Douglass North’s neo-institutional approaches to economic history. It is argued that both authors interpreted the economic history of Brazil and the United States respectively in the context
Mauro Boianovsky
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Ensemble Concerts

open access: yes, 2005
Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and Latin Jazz Ensembles recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert ...
University of North Texas. Brazilian Ensemble.   +2 more
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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil [PDF]

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This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of ...
Assunção, Juliano J.   +2 more
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La favorita polka [music] /

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Caption title.; Engraved.; Lithographer: Allan & Wigley.; Cover illustration of scenes from colonial life signed S.T.G. [i.e S.T.
Adcock, St. John, Mrs.
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World Music Concert, December 10, 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is the concert program of the World Music Concert performance on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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