A negociação manguebeat: cultura pop, mídia e periferia no Recife contemporâneo by Carolina Leão

“…Da fusão de ritmos regionais (maracatu, samba, coco, ciranda) com o pop (funk, rock, soul, black, hip hop, punk), desenvolveu-se o manguebeat -- síntese musical que expõe um tipo de sincretismo de ritmos e a interação deles com as diversas culturas do globo. …”
Get full text

The Vibe of the Exiles: Aliens, Afropsychedelia and Psyculture by Graham St John

“…Sharing a theme central to cosmic jazz, funk, rock, dub, electro, hip-hop and techno, from the earliest productions, Israeli and otherwise, Goatrance, assumed an off-world trajectory, and a concomitant celebration of difference, a potent otherness signified by the alien encounter, where contact and abduction become driving narratives for increasingly popular social aesthetics. …”
Get full text