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Live music and
recording
If you want to see or hear live music , look for suggestions in this
guide, buy local papers with weekend listings headed Lazer, which
should have a list of bars with music, concerts and dancetarias, or
ask a tourist office for advice.
Local radio is often worth listening to - you won't regret taking a
transistor along and whirling the dial - and there are also local TV
stations that often have MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) programmes;
the TVE, Televisão Educativa network, funded by the Catholic Church
and the Ministry of Culture, is worth checking - if you see the
initials FUNARTE, it might well be a music programme.
Finally, a word about buying recordings . The price varies according
to how well known the recording artist is. Recordings even by
leading artists are less expensive than in the USA or Europe, and
those by more obscure artists and regional music are cheaper still.
At the upper end of the scale, but dependably high quality, are the
A Arte de, O Talento de or A Personalidade de series, often double
albums, which are basically "Greatest Hits" compilations of the
best-known singers and musicians.
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The best place to buy any music,
no matter how regional, is São Paulo, then Rio, with cities like
Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre a long way behind.
Outside Rio and São Paulo there are good music shops, but they're
few and far between: look in local papers to see if there are
adverts for Loja de Disco (record shop), with MPB or discos
nacionais mentioned in the advert.
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