BRIC POP: The Blog

I’ve been a way for two weeks sorting out some work stuff (like a new job!), so I’ll do some quick BRIC Pop news roundup, then I’d like to dig into some old research I had done on the music of Xinjiang (think of it as the bluegrass of China) being given a modern techno [...]

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Well, the blog is called BRIC Pop, so I supposed a journey around the pop music charts of the BRICs would be in order.  While Michael Jackson continues to make death the ultimate career move, and Lady Gaga continues trying (successfully) to out-cheese Europop, the BRICs have some global, some local, and some inexplicable:
Brazil (from [...]

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Some fresh stories of the pop cultural kind from around the BRICs:

19-year-old football wunderkind Alexandre Pato marries novela star Sthefany Brito in Rio.  Proceeding nicely on the pathway to superstardom, weight gain, tranny liaisons, a comeback and redemption.

Now playing in Yekaterinburg: The Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia.  The Brits continue to be repelled, yet [...]

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Been on a whirlwind project that had nothing to do with the BRICs, so I was sadly away from the book, and this blog. Let’s catch up on a few things that caught my eye in the last few weeks:
Wunderkind footballer Alexandre Pato — now shortened to just Pato by the brilliant self-naming gods [...]

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Everyone has their doppelganger. Here are some people who sometimes get pegged as the BRIC equivalent of a western celebrity.
Ksenia Sobchak: the Paris Hilton of Russia. Unfair, because Ksenia has an education, multilingual fluency, and is likeable. She’s also #6 on Forbes Russian celebrity power list.

Next, a woman I adore, Ana [...]

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