Brazilian Rodeo: The Festa do Peão in Barretos, São Paulo State |
In his book River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil, anthropologist Alexander Sebastian Dent of The George Washington University describes the Barretos rodeo. This is an adapted excerpt from the book.
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Brazilian Auto Racing |
Motor sports fans can enjoy a full range of races in Brazil – from the São Paulo legs of the Formula 1 and Indy series to the Brazilian stock car championship.
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São Paulo Sports, Exercise & Outdoor Activities |
The city of São Paulo offers a wide array of choices for the evening-and-weekend athlete and a surprising number of options for the outdoors enthusiast.
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BrazilMax Radio: 2006 World Cup Special |
BrazilMax Radio celebrates the World Cup. Our special World Cup program features only songs with football/soccer themes. Our guest is filmmaker Caito Ortiz, co-director of The Day Brazil Was Here, a documentary about the Brazilian national team’s visit to Haiti for a game in that strife torn Caribbean nation.
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Golf in Rio de Janeiro |
A toucan came swooping down and landed on the fairway. Nobody batted an eye – except the guy from Houston. “We don’t have any birds on our courses,” he remarked.
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Brazil Soccer Classic: Atlético vs. Cruzeiro at Mineirão Stadium |
“I attended the Atlético-Cruzeiro match at the lumbering, concrete wonderland of a stadium in Belo Horizonte - Mineirão. They bill the rivalry “The Classic” and I now understand why,” writes contributor William Wolfrum.
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| Nosso Futebol, a painting by Ermelinda de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) |
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