Music in Brazil

Welcome

This is the new companion site for my book, Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, in the Oxford University Press Global Music series. It's intended for students and teachers who are using the book as well as general readers and Brazilian music fans. That's me in the photo, at left, sitting in with Arlindo dos Oito Baixos (him: cool and relaxed; me: concentrating like crazy in order to avoid pushing when I should pull and vice versa), my teacher of accordion during 2000-2001. This site is actively maintained. It was last updated on November 10, 2020.

The publisher

This site is not to be confused with the official Oxford University Press Global Music Series companion site. Don't have a copy yet? Try the Oxford University Press catalog or amazon.

New Chapter My chapter "Music in Brazil: Samba, A Symbol of National Identity," has just been published in Global Music Cultures: An Introduction to World Music, edited by Bonnie C. Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell (Oxford University Press, 2021). Publisher's page for the book.

John Murphy | jpm21228@gmail.com