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Cachaça and Explaining Brazil

1/16/2020

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Welcome to the third blog post about Brazil in preparation to our trip in May 2020. This post I will share one interesting CNN segment that I saw this week and a podcast that I really like when it comes to understanding Brazilian politics and society. First, the CNN segment: it was a brief report on cachaça, Brazil's spirit. People always asks me what is the difference between rum and cachaça and I never knew how to explain it, this article helped me with that. This segment also reminded me of a Timbalada song called "Cachaça". The kind of music Timbalada plays is very much the soul of Bahia and Salvador. We will visit percussion schools and have classes that mirror their music style.
I have been meaning to post about Explaining Brazil for a couple of weeks. This is a great resource produced by phenomenal reporters, dealing with many issues. I will post a link to the podcast on Sticher (here) but you can find in any podcast aggregator. Below I share links to the episodes that relate directly to our course themes.
  • How Lula's story explain Brazil
  • Marvel's "gay kiss" controversy
  • Brazil's prison wars 
  • Discovering Little Africa in Rio de Janeiro (we are not going there, but this episode is really good)
  • Being LGBT in Bolsonaro's Brazil and LGBT inclusion in Brazil
  • Two episodes about Marielle Franco's assassination (links here and here)
  • The business of carnaval in Rio
  • Brazil's war on drugs
  • Racism in soccer (this is also a really good episode)
  • Abortion rights in Brazil
  • The return of certain diseases in Brazil

This gives you a lot of interesting and easy to access information about Brazil. If you are already into podcasts, just add this one to your list!

WHAT I AM LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW: Elza Soares- A Carne
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