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Interviews
Questions:
1. Are you Brazilian Portuguese? If not, then how do you identify?
2. Did you grow up in Brazil? If so, what songs do you remember listening to as a child?
(As in, folk songs)
3. If you didn’t grow up in Brazil, what songs have you encountered in your teaching in
Brazil/in your life?
Person 1: Caio Oliveira
1. yes
2. I grew up in Brazil. The songs I remember the most are lullabies and folk circle
dances/songs:
• Nana neném, que a cuca vem pegar
• O sapo não lava o pé
• Alecrim dourado
• As flores já não crescem mais
• Lencinho branco
• Pombinha branca
And some songs that were meant to be sung while jumping rope.
• Salada, saladinha
• O homem bateu em minha porta
• Suco gelado
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Person 2: Sandra Tavares (former colleague)
*There is a difference between Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese...it’s like French vs
French Canadian*
1. Portuguese
2. Grew up in Fall River, M.A.; grandparents from Azores Islands of Portugal
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• Portuguese radio stations
• Church music on sundays
• CDs/old records from grandparents
• “Yes, Brazilian and Portuguese speak the same Portuguese language but the
music is very different.”
Person 3: Manny Amaral (Portuguese Band Leader, Bristol R.I.)
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