Here
are some of our favorite arts and crafts, dances, artists, and festivals from Brazil. This is like a drop in the ocean;
Brazil is so vast and the music, rhythms, and popular feasts so varied that it
is impossible to list them all. Plus, these days you can see almost anything or anybody on YouTube, so I don't need to work so hard anymore. When I started the site back in 1995 there was nothing about Brazilian popular culture online, but now...these pages will serve as an introduction to wet your feet, before you dive in. Enjoy! We've donated our entire collection of Brazilian popular culture to Florida International University; its home now is at the Green Library, Special Collections. It's a fantastic resource for any scholar wishing to learn more or do research on music, crafts, dances, etc.
If you'd like to purchase Brazilian crafts, we
mention a selection of markets and stores on almost every page in Favorite
Places. For Rio de Janeiro, there are numerous places listed on Little Black Book. One really special place to listen to Brazilian music online is Ellen Collison's Spinning In Air, the best all-around (also meaning from all over!!) music blog I've ever visited.
