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...them. Today's popular party drugs are derived from ancient medicinal herbs: marijuana from hemp, cocaine from coca leaf, prescription painkillers from poppies. It's the shamans who aggressively seek out new substances. Recent additions to the U.S. market include ayahuasco, a plant long used in religious ceremonies in Brazil for its mind-manipulating qualities, and Salvia divinorum, a soft-leaved plant native to Mexico that is chewed or smoked for hallucinogenic effects...
...There have been a number of musical movements in the last century or so in Brazil. Samba got its start in the early 20th century as many former slaves moved to central Rio, taking with them their traditions of batucadas (percussion jams) and fusing the rhythms with influences from more formal musical genres such as marcha and maxixe. In the '50s there was the bossa nova, a cooler, more streamlined genre partly derived from samba that was championed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and others. And in the mid-'60s, in the wake of the Beatles and psychedelia and political oppression...
...Something about Brazil No. 3: Brazil isn't just a country, it's really its own world, with its own language (Portuguese), music and culture; it's not as eagerly derivative as some other countries. There are more than 150 million people living here, so they've got plenty of their own cultural inertia...
...thing that makes this concert special is that it's not especially designed for outsiders. It's a party for Brazilians and if the rest of the world wants to join, the more the merrier. "Our primary goal was to create an event for Brazil and open that up for the rest of the world," says Garcia. "To them, this is their Woodstock." Garcia's "people" (note to self: get a job where I have "people." As a lowly music critic I am people-less) give me my press passes and three T-shirts. They tell me that...
...Something about Brazil No. 4: Beware of any generalizations about Brazil, especially by foreign journalists like me who A) don't speak Portuguese, B) have only been in the country 48 hours and C) have trouble pronouncing names like "Milton Nascimento...