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ARChive of Contemporary Music 2010 Year-end Roundup! – An overview of last year’s projects and activities it’s official: the oughts are over…. Uh, did you notice ARC’s subtle new sign outside on White Street? Yes, we now have the look of a… read more >>
As you may know ARC is building a Brasilian/Brazilian Collection. Now if YOU are building a Brasilian/Brazilian Collection, I think the next record you should get is Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas, Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967 – 1976. (Tropicalia In Furs, USA, WPFC… read more >>
Easing into the new year, slowly. An old friend, Richard Fleming, aka DJ Richard Nixon, has worked his obsessions (music, hiking, the Caribbean, birding, photography) into a wonderful new book and photographic gallery show. I first met Rich in Cartegena, Colombia in… read more >>
ARC is busy building a comprehensive Brazilian collection here at the Library. To our shame there is currently no major institution in the States actively building a comprehensive collection of this great music. Our chief advisor in all this has been Béco… read more >>
As March drips away, if you’re like me, you’ve been playing various versions of Jobim’s Águas de Março (Waters of March) all month. We’ve got about 40 cover versions @ the ARC. A moving recent version is by BossaCucaNova, (Bossa Cuca Nova… read more >>
Check it out! The garbage cans at the airport in São Paulo, Brazil, look like conga drums! Does anyone out there know if these can be found elsewhere in São Paulo? dtn