http://deepbrazil.com/category/culture/music/

The most graphic city in the world becomes middle aged today. Fifty years later,  Brasília’s curves, ramps, wide avenues and huge open spaces keep their freshness.

http://deepbrazil.com/category/culture/visual-arts/

No artist portrayed the beauty of the Brazilian rain forest flowers better than Margaret Mee

http://www.riocomgentileza.com.br/index.html

http://www.last.fm/music/Hermeto+Pascoal?setlang=en

…He uses nature as a basis for his compositions…

http://deepbrazil.com/2010/02/17/brazilian-baroque/

The map of bahia culture

http://www.worldreviewer.com/travel-guides/market/feira-de-sao-joaquim/14522/

Cultour – Travelling off the beaten path

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/brazil-archives-63/875-brazil-quilombo-communities-fight-exclusion

More than a century after the abolition of slavery, Brazil still has small remnant “quilombos”, free settlements created by fugitive African slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/53312/kenneth-maxwell/the-masters-and-the-slaves-a-study-in-the-development-of-brazili

What to read before your Brazilian trip.
Cultour – Slow travel designed by outside-the-box thinkers
for travellers in search of something more.

The bumba-meu-boi, (bumba-boi, boi-bumbá, etc.) is a very popular and widespread comic-dramatic dance, which tells the story of the death and resurrection of an ox. It started at the end of the 18th century in the coastal sugar plantations and cattle ranches of northeastern Brazil and from there it spread to the north and south

http://www.maria-brazil.org/bumbameuboi.htm

A spellbinding saga on a truly epic scale that brings to life Brazil and her history.

http://erroluys.com/BrazilPage1.htm