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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post-card which you look at in a weak moment...."
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934
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jazz
samba
bossa nova
MPB
tango
blues
soul
r&b
funk
ska
rock
reggae
Too many to list.
But please watch:
from Vietnam:
Xich lo (Cyclo, 1996), directed by Tran Anh Hung.
Also,
from Brazil:
Cidade de Deus (City of God, 2002), directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund.
"For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set."
- Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985
Too many to list.
What I'm reading now:
Formação do Império Americano: da guerra contra a Espanha à guerra no Iraque
(Building the American Empire: From the Spanish-American War to Iraq)
by Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira. Published in 2005.
Also:
Planeta Favela
by Mike Davis.
(Originally published as "Planet of Slums" in 2005.)
A must-read for understanding the future of Brazil and the rest of the 'developing world':
Karl Pilkington