Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the ...

This project analyzes the role of Northeastern Brazil in contemporary Brazilian culture to explore how cultural regionalisms are used to negotiate global modernity. It follows ...

The classic introduction to the Caribbean's popular music brought up to date.

In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on an experiment in full democracy for the first time in the nation's history. Since then ...