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Bossa Nova: The Reinvention and Reinvigoration of Samba in the 1950s

open access: yesParadigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2013
In a society where music becomes the core of its people’s life, many discourses emerge and root in music. In Brazil, for instance, samba as the national music represents the chronicle of the Brazilians, which starts from the slavery in eighteenth century.
Martinus Helmiawan
doaj   +1 more source

Feature Article: ELT Materials

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract After providing a working definition of ELT materials that encompasses both commercial and noncommercial instructional resources, I differentiate between studies of materials content, consumption, and production, reviewing notable studies of each type, most of which have appeared in the pages of TQ.
Nigel Harwood
wiley   +1 more source

Le choro, musique métisse et originelle : transferts culturels, hybridations et identité culturelle nationale au Brésil (1870-1930)

open access: yesLes Cahiers ALHIM, 2018
Born in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, the musical genre of choro is one of the three genres at the roots of all Brazilian music. It transcends the limits between popular music and art music while having a special place among Brazilian musics, being ...
Alice Boccara
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Brazilian Portuguese Words for Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Brazilian Portuguese is the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, which has slight differences from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal. One may try to understand such differences by comparing them with the dissimilarities between the American English and the ...
Cassidy, Tracy Diane, Gies, Sheila
core  

Faculty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Latin American ...
LLILAS Staff
core   +1 more source

Sustainable Tourism and Projectification: Evidence from South‐Eastern Italy

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how public policy can be used to promote local tourism and steer it towards sustainability. It uses the municipality of Lecce—a medium‐sized city in south‐eastern Italy—and the broader Salento region as a critical case study, drawing on descriptive statistics, administrative data on local policy projects promoting culture
Lorenzo Mascioli
wiley   +1 more source

Cultures of innovation of the African poor : common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? ; on the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and black diasporas in latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders.
Kohnert, Dirk
core   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

MILTON NASCIMENTO: A SMALL BIBLIOGRAPHY

open access: yesTravessias, 2015
Milton Nascimento, nationally recognized as an icon of Brazilian popular music, was born in Rio de Janeiro on August 26, 1942. The son of a maid named Maria do Carmo - poor and the interior of Minas Gerais - Milton Nascimento lost his mother too soon, a ...
alberto carlos de souza
doaj  

Brazilian Challenges On Network Music

open access: yes, 2013
(Abstract to follow)
Arango, Julian Jaramillo   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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