Brasyl

SELECTED READING

The intellectual godfather of this book is David Deursch’s The Fabric of Reality. A few years old, but one of the most intellectually thrilling books I have read.

Books in English about Brazil are surprisingly hard to find: there are ten times as many about Cuba, a country you could lose in the Itaipu Dam, as there are abour Brazil. Nevertheless, here are a few volumes I found special.

John Hemming: Red Gold. Peerless, beautiful, and grim, this is the definitive history of the Brazilian Indians.

David G. Campbell: A Land of Ghosts. A beautifully written, humane account of the ecology and peoples of western Amazonia.

Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti: The Brazil Reader. Invaluable for the 134 types of skin color alone.

Euclides da Cunha: Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões). Classic, stunning story of the nineteenth-century Canudos uprising and its brutal suppression.

Alex Bellos: Futebol. The Guardian’s Brazil correspondent has produced the best book about the beautiful game in Brazil and the essential guide about how to be Brazilian. I freely admit sampling his definitive account of the Fateful Final. Not a dull page in it.

Peter Robb: A Death in Brazil. Fascinating journalistic study of political corruption in the northeast, but also a history, a travel book, and a cookbook as well.

Siri: “No Tranco”

Suba: “Tantos Desejos” (Nicola Come remix)

Samba de Coco Raizes de Arcoverde: “Gode Pavao”

Acid X: “Uma Geral”

Bebel Gilberto: “Tanto Tempo”

Suba: “Na Neblina”

Fala: “Propozuda R’n’Roll”

Salome de Bahia: “Taj Mahal” (Club Mix)

Céu (feat. Pyroman): “Malemôlencia”

Milton Nascimento: “Travessia”

Carlinhos Brown/Mestre Pintodo do

Bongo: “Ai”

Bebel Gilberto: “Sem Contenção” (Truby Trio remix)

Mylene: “Nela Lagoa”

Tijuana: Pula

Carlinhos Brown: “Água Mineral”

Pagode Jazz: “Sardinha’s Club”

Suba: “Você Gosca”

Bonde Das Bad Girls: “Montagem Skollboll”

Suba: “Abraço”

Milton Nascimento: “Cio da terra”