Debora Baldelli
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Social scientist, ethnomusicologist and web editor, currently living in Lisbon, where I am a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the New University of Lisbon (INET-MD). I'm also a Lingua Editor of Global Voices in Portuguese.
I blog here: Sound Serendipities (en) and here: urbanices (pt).
Latest posts by Debora Baldelli
15 September 2011
Brazil
American Rapper Curren$y is being criticized by Brazilian bloggers [pt] for using Cartola’s classic cover “Verde Que Te Quero Verde” for his new work without mentioning or giving credit to one of the most important figures of Samba and Brazilian Music.
9 September 2011
Brazil
Arte Fora do Museu [Art outside the museum, pt] intends to map online art from the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. The project so far has mapped 100 “pieces” from grafittis, sculptures, walls and architectural works.
19 July 2011
Brazil
Gambiologia is a collective of artists from Belo Horizonte inspired by the “Science of Gambiarra” - a Brazilian “trend” of adapting, improvising and finding simple and creative solutions to all kinds of everyday problems - in the context of electronic art.
21 May 2011
Brazil
A musical love “prayer” was one of the hottest topics of the week on the Web in Brazil. A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade's video, (the name means “The City's Most Beautiful Band”) released on May 17 and recorded in a long take, has already thrilled more than 700,000 people [pt] and keeps being widely shared on Facebook.
14 May 2011
Brazil
David Rocha, a talented young man from São Paulo outskirts, has been building instruments from any kind of used wood, as the video in this post illustrates. Some of his accomplishments so far are a cavaquinho, a Brazilian rebec and an acoustic guitar made with wood from a cod box, all with amazing sound.
11 April 2011
Brazil
Rabeca.org is an online project that aims to gather and present information about the Brazilian rabeca and Guanari rawé in a map with audio recordings, photos, texts and videos. The platform offers an opportunity to explore this fascinating instrument similar to a violin, but with a regional focus and tradition.
16 January 2011
Brazil: Flooding in the Mountainous Region of Rio de Janeiro Devastated Cities
The mountaineous region of Rio de Janeiro is suffering what is being considered Brazil’s most-deadly natural disaster: there are more than 500 fatal victims and countless people left homeless so far. This tragedy, which gives only its first steps in the aid of the victims, still doesn't allow us to assess the damage and the work to be done, but it already brings back the debate about the urgency of creating a policy for climate catastrophes in the country.
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4 January 2011
Malaysia
Baragül, a Brazilian blogger, investigates the lusophone influence in Malacca (Malaysia). In this post he argues about some gastronomy traditions shared between Brazil, Portugal and East Timor that are also present in the former Portuguese Colony.
28 November 2010
Brazil
Young residents in the Complexo do Alemão favelas in Rio de Janeiro have begun using social and citizen media to chronicle the recent wave of violence spreading through the city. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Rene Silva has set up a Twitter account, @vozdacomunidade (voice of the community) [pt], to monitor the police occupation of the favela complex, with the related hashtag, #vozdacomunidade, already beginning to trend. Meanwhile, @Igorcomunidade [pt] is also offering updates of what he calls “a guerra do alemão” (Alemão's War), and another group of young locals [pt] has started streaming footage [pt] of the occupation.
I want to ask, there is not software to change from letter to letter Latin...