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The Brazilian Sound
At the second International Song Festival in 1967, Milton Nascimento had three songs accepted for competition. He had no intention of performing them--he hated the idea of intense competition. In fact, Nascimento might never have appeared at all if Eumir Deodato hadn't threatened not to write the arrangements for his songs if he didn't perform at least two of them. Nascimento went on to win the festival's best performer award, all three of his songs were included soon afterward on his first album, and the rest is history. This is only one anecdote from The Brazilian Sound, an encyclopedic survey of Brazilian popular music that ranges over samba, bossa nova, MPB, jazz and instrumental music a...
Learning from Madness
Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the “art of the insane” that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, which led to a much wider appreciation among the curators of major institutions of modern art in Brazil, where pieces are included in important exhibitions and collections. Kaira M. Cabañas shows that at the center of this advocacy stood such significant proponents as psychiatrists Osório Cés...
Agroclimatology
Can we unlock resilience to climate stress by better understanding linkages between the environment and biological systems? Agroclimatology allows us to explore how different processes determine plant response to climate and how climate drives the distribution of crops and their productivity. Editors Jerry L. Hatfield, Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, and John H. Prueger have taken a comprehensive view of agroclimatology to assist and challenge researchers in this important area of study. Major themes include: principles of energy exchange and climatology, understanding climate change and agriculture, linkages of specific biological systems to climatology, the context of pests and diseases, methods of agroclimatology, and the application of agroclimatic principles to problem-solving in agriculture.
Teacher–Child Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care Classrooms
How children’s development is shaped by Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) classrooms and especially by teacher–child interactions in those settings is a major issue in research and politics, which has been researched for several decades. This book investigates this important topic by raising three overarching questions: (1) What are ‘good’ teacher–child interactions and how they can be measured? (2) Which individual and/or contextual aspects are associated with teacher–child interactions? (3) What is the impact of teacher–child interactions on the development of children's competencies? The book ties in these fundamental questions with educational research by bringing t...
Covid-19
Em seus boletins e notas técnicas, divulgados desde o início da pandemia, o Observatório Covid-19 Fiocruz tem apresentado dados, informações e balanços que indicam uma série de tendências para os sistemas e organizações de saúde de todo o país. Em meio a esse contexto, o Observatório e a Editora Fiocruz lançam mais um e-book gratuito, reunindo um compilado de análises, experiências e reflexões para tempos tão desafiadores. Dividido em quatro partes, que englobam um total de 30 capítulos, o volume é um esforço conjunto de 159 pesquisadoras e pesquisadores. A primeira parte faz um panorama sobre o enfrentamento da Covid-19 em âmbitos nacional e internacional. Em seguida, ...
Brazil under Lula
This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party on Brazilian economy and society, as he begins his second four-year term.
Italia, Portogallo, Brasile: un incontro di storia, lingua e letteratura attraverso i secoli
I contributi riuniti nel volume, presentati per la prima volta in occasione del I Convegno dell'AISPEB (Associazione di Studi Portoghesi e Brasiliani), tenutosi nel 2012 presso le sedi dell'Università di Roma “La Sapienza” e dell'Università di Roma Tre, offrono un panorama di temi, linguistici e letterari, legati sia al contesto portoghese che a quello brasiliano. I saggi d’argomento letterario rinnovano il contributo italiano allo studio della letteratura luso-brasiliana, rimanendo nel solco di una tradizione nazionale ricca di spunti, che ha visto arrivare proprio dall’Italia alcuni contributi storici, filologici ed ermeneutici tuttora indispensabili per comprendere l’opera dei maggiori autori di lingua portoghese. I saggi di argomento linguistico sintetizzano invece alcuni dei risultati prodotti dalle cattedre di lingua, di recente istituzione in Italia, privilegiando in particolar modo tematiche legate al binomio lingua-traduzione.
Caetano Veloso’s A Foreign Sound
What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound “American,” or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso's 2004 American songbook album, A Foreign Sound, is a meditation on these questions-but in truth, they were questions he'd been asking throughout his career. Properly heard, the album throws a wrench into received ideas regarding the global hegemony of US popular music, and also what constitutes the Brazilian sound. This book takes listeners back through some of Veloso's earlier considerations of American popular music, and forward to his more recent experiments, in order to explore his take on the relationship between US and Brazilian musical idioms. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
