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1 month agoUruguay's candombe brings streets to life as the once-banned musical tradition roars back
Candombe, Uruguay's Afro-descendant music once banned and marginalized, is now experiencing peak popularity after spreading from Black neighborhoods throughout the country.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoMore than 600 works by Afro-Brazilian artists returned to Brazil
A voluntary repatriation returned 666 Afro-Brazilian works from Detroit to Muncab in Salvador, marking Brazil's largest cultural repatriation and a symbolic act of reparation.
fromOpen Culture
2 months agoBrazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie's Passing
In 2004, the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge recorded a series of Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie classics, and in 2016-2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now, in 2026, to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's passing, Jorge returns with the performance above.
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fromColossal
2 months agoRegina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America
Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. First presented in 1997, "To Be Continued..." features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and scenes to leave fragments of pop culture icons, flora and fauna, and even the occasional mugshot spliced next to one another.
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2 months agoFabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orquestra: Vila review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
Fabiano do Nascimento combines virtuosic fingerpicked guitar with Vittor Santos's 16-piece orchestral arrangements to create lush, percussive, bossa-influenced instrumental music on Vila.
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