Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World By Ruy Castro
2003 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1556524943 | PDF | 6 MB
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as "The Girl from Ipanema" (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), "The Waters of March," and "Desafinado" are known around the world. Bossa Nova-a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de saudade-is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro's wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto's singular vision into the sound of a generation.

Size: 731.29 MB | Total Duration: 38:19 | Total Tracks: 7
Format: FLAC | 2675 Kbps
Album: Brazilian Moods
Artist: Anders Mogensen
Genre: Musiques du monde, Amérique latine
Date/Year: 2022

Fernanda Ferreira, "The Everything Essential Brazilian Portuguese Book: All You Need to Learn Brazilian Portuguese in No Time!"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1440567549 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.6 mb
Brazilian Portuguese made fun-and fast!

Protest Movements as Media Vehicles of the Brazilian New Right: A Study of Populist Discourses by Nicole McLean
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 295 Pages | ISBN : 9811943788 | 29.6 MB

Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century (New Approaches to the Americas) by Júnia Ferreira Furtado
English | December 8, 2008 | ISBN: 0521884659, 052171155X | True EPUB | 348 pages | 17.6 MB
Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators, and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave from the Costa da Mina and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies.

Brazilian Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives and Ideologies
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031093917 | 177 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Brazil is a large country in terms of geographic land mass and population size. It's position in Latin America means that it contributes to much of the economic development within this area. Despite the importance of Brazil in the global economy, not much research has been highlighted about entrepreneurship in the country. This book aims to change this by focusing on Brazil in terms of entrepreneurial endeavours and pursuits. This includes focusing on the rural and urban areas in terms of entrepreneurial practices. Each chapter in the book will focus on a different aspect of entrepreneurship in Brazil including how culture, ethnicity and wealth influence entrepreneurship. Thereby taking a holistic perspective in terms of including both financial and non-financial forms of entrepreneurship. Interesting topics such as sustainable and environmental forms of entrepreneurship will be examined from a Brazilian perspective together with technological forms of entrepreneurship evident in the growth of smart cities within the region. This book will be amongst the first to holistically examine the contemporary hardships and successes of entrepreneurship in Brazil.

Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present by Lilia M. Schwarcz, translated by Eric M. B. Becker
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0691210918 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 7.8/22.2 MB
How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violence

African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil By Scott Ickes
2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0813044782 | PDF | 4 MB
Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as "Brazil's Black Rome." Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its African-descended population is one of the largest in Latin America. Yet despite representing a majority of the population, African-Bahians remain a marginalized racial group within the state as a whole. InAfrican-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil, Scott Ickes examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, African-Bahian cultural practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé during carnival and other popular religious festivals came to be accepted as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices were repressed in favor of more European traditions and a more "modern" vision. Newfound acceptance of these customs was a democratic move forward, but it also perpetuated the political and economic marginalization of the black majority. Ickes argues that cultural-political alliances between African-Bahian cultural practitioners and their dominant-class allies nevertheless helped to create a meaningful framework through which African-Bahian inclusion could be negotiated-a framework that is also important in the larger discussions of race and regional and national identity throughout Brazil.

Easy Portuguese Cookbook: 50 Authentic Portuguese and Brazilian Recipes by Chef Maggie Chow
English | December 13, 2015 | ISBN: 1522735720 | 170 pages | EPUB | 0.36 Mb
Learn the Portuguese and Brazilian Style of Cooking. With these 50 Authentic Brazilian and Portuguese Recipes!

New Literacies, New Agencies?: A Brazilian Perspective on Mindsets, Digital Practices and Tools for Social Action In and Out of School (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) By Eduardo S. Junqueira (editor), Marcelo E.K. Buzato (editor)
2013 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 1433121123 | PDF | 3 MB
From students as teachers' pets to teachers as Second Life avatars, or from being ridiculed for not knowing your syntax to ridiculing others through multimodal remixing, something has changed in the way people are acting and being acted upon through literacies. From parallel text processing «under a cloud» to text-as-process enhanced by cloud computing, or from one laptop per child to several laptops left behind by children in creative spoken interaction, learners and educators' actions through and around texts and technologies provide quite a telling example of such changes. From writing as technology to blogging as a tool for fostering critical mindsets within complexity, or from automatized knowledge acquisition routines to new forms of relating to knowledge and new perspectives on autonomy, social ordering and Self constitutional processes defy binaries such as agent/structure, global/local, social/technical, virtual/real, or even human/non-human. In this volume a team of scholars from some of the most prestigious Brazilian universities address these issues, and illustrate them with findings from research on the interplay between new literacies, digital technologies and social action in and out-of-school. The chapters introduce, or revisit, an array of theoretical constructs from education, sociology, linguistics and media studies, while presenting a new inside perspective about how research on new literacies is being carried out in Brazil. Altogether, they provide a very useful set of ideas, tools and analytical frameworks for researchers, teachers, and students of Education, Language and Arts and Communication worldwide, especially those concerned with technology-enhanced education and social inclusion.