Music in Brazil

Matthew MittlerSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville

Research Question

How has the music played throughout Brazil changed in the last 50 years? Is globalization causing more Western music genres to be played?

Methods

• Gathered music data from music databases on the internet (RYM, Discogs)

• Put data (FID, artist name, location, genre, gender) into Excel spreadsheets

• Create shapefiles in ArcCatolog and points in ArcMap Editor

• Joined Excel tables with shapefiles (one shapefile per decade)

• Moved points to the proper location

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Frequency of Traditional Genres in Brazil

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Gender of Artists in Brazil

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Conclusions

• Non-Traditional genres drastically increased from 60s – 80s

• Slight rise in traditional genres in the 90s but has dropped since

• More genres as time goes on so an increasingly diverse music scene

• Brazil mostly hates women but has seen a slight rise in women artists since the 80s– No female artists from the Northeast

The EndQuestions or Comments?