[Brazil@Harvard] Brazil Film Series - Tonight

Brazil Film Series: Presented by The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard Brazilian Organization The Sound of Brazil: Brasileirinho Directed by Mika Kaurismäki, 2005 Mika Kaurismäki's toe-tapping, finger-snapping documentary reveals the vibrant sounds of Brazil's old-style Choro music, a blend of native Indian, European and African styles that forms the foundation of modern musical styles including Bossa Nova and Samba. This musical documentary shows the history and the vitality of Choro, one of the first genuinely Brazilian urban musical style. Choro was created around 1870 when new music groups in Rio de Janeiro started mixing European music with Afro-Brazilian rhythms and melancholic music of Brazilian Indians. After being overshadowed by the Samba in the 1920s and later by the Bossa Nova, Choro is now livelier than ever before in the bars and concert halls. Brasileirinho focuses on the musicians from "Trio Madeira Brasil". Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm Location: Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), 1730 Cambridge Street -- Marcio Siwi Fellow / Program Officer Brazil Studies Program Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138 tel (617) 495-5435 http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil