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Download or read book Music in Brazil written by John Patrick Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the largest nation in Latin America, Brazil is home to some of the most celebrated music in the world. This case study in the Global Music Series edited by Bonnie C. Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell is one of the first books to explore the contemporary diversity of Brazilian music. Each chapter combines narratives of musical events with musical analysis, personal histories of musicians, and explorations of the connections between music and other domains of Brazilian culture andsociety.