Carnaval
- Official Rio Carnival site (Sambadrome page)
- Independent League of Escolas de Carnaval (Rio)
- Sambadrome (Wikipedia)
- Sambadrome photos (google search)
- Rio de Janeiro’s elite samba schools parade through the Sambadrome (2019)
- Portela 2015 bateria (percussion section) in Sambadrome
- Samba school (Wikipedia)
Samba drumming
- Instruments of the bateria
- Batteria de Escola de Samba
- Escola de Samba bateria (search results on youtube)
- A word about surdos
- Tamborim
- Pandeiro
- Cavaquinho demos: 1, 2 (go in 1 min.)
- Cuica: Marcos (Bahia), Carlinhos (Rio)
Samba
- The Spirit of Samba (1982) (capoeira, 35:05)
- Afropop Worldwide
- Rio 1: Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil
- Rio 2: Samba Strikes Back
- Marlon Bishop’s Rio blogs
- Trem do Samba (7/12/12)
- Red Bull (7/26/12)
- Samba, the New Class (7/30/12)
Bossa Nova
- Black Orpheus — Marcel Camus (1958)
- Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz – The Girl From Ipanema (1964) LIVE
- Joao Gilberto, “Samba da minha terra“
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Aguas de Março” and lyrics 1 (with Jobim’s English rewrite); 2 (with clip of Jobim with Elis Regina); 3 (with Jobim singing solo);
- “One Note Samba,” Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ella Fitzgerald
- Dean Martin & Caterina Valente – One Note Samba
Tropicalia
- Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes: “Domingo no Parque” (live)
MPB
- Beth Carvalho, “Coisinha do Pai“
- Milton Nascimento, Cravo e Canela (1988, live)
- Edu Lobo, “Nego Maluca”: Rio 1993; original recording
Bahia
- Daniela Mercury, “O Canto da Cidade”
- Olodum with Michael Jackson, “They Don’t Care About Us” (1995)
- Olodum with Paul Simon, “Obvious Child” (1990)
- Olodum long drum outdoor performance at home
- Largo do Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia (UNESCO World Heritage Site)