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By Russ Slater 04 November, 2013

Ever since I first heard “Qasida”, the 10th track off Siba Veloso’s latest album Avante, I haven’t been able to... Read Article

By Gregory Scruggs 19 September, 2011

In the second part of Sounding Out the Swamp: Recife, Pernambuco, and The Cultural Rise of Northeastern Brazil (read part... Read Article

By Russ Slater 12 August, 2011

DJ 440 is one of Brazil’s most prominent DJs and an expert in music from the Northeast of Brazil, where... Read Article

By Amy Cunningham 20 June, 2011

Deeply bound to the northeastern coastal cultures of Brazil is a stringed instrument known as the the rabeca. With the... Read Article

By Eloisa Aquino 14 June, 2011

In 1992, in the Bar de Dona Edna, in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, the musician and cultural agitator Francisco de Assis... Read Article