SAO PAULO, Brazil — Songs that Rita Lee recorded back in the 1960s have suddenly emerged as hipster favorites on college radio stations in the United States. Beck christened one of his releases ...

A tanned, beautiful young woman in a skimpy bikini walks through the lapping sea waters on the edge of a sun-soaked beach. Soft music plays, its shifting beat following her footsteps. It's a cliché, ...

View of Rio de Janeiro. Photo by sandeepachetan.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) via Flickr With the summer Olympics in full swing, I wanted to highlight two great songs about the country as well as the carioca ...

Brazil, which recently overtook the UK as the world’s sixth-largest economy, has been enjoying a lot of positive press. It is sealing its reputation as a dynamic place, a fun place, a diverse place – ...