CURATION
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by Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda
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City/Place:
Rio de Janeiro
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo
Life
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Bio:
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, nasceu em Ribeirão Preto (SP), em 26 de julho de 1939. Formou-se em Letras Clássicas pela PUC-Rio, com mestrado e doutorado em Literatura Brasileira na UFRJ e pós-doutorado em Sociologia da Cultura na Universidade de Columbia, em Nova York. É escritora, professora emérita da Escola de Comunicação da UFRJ, membro efetivo e perpétuo da Academia Brasileira de Letras do RJ e coordenadora do Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea (PACC-Letras/UFRJ), onde dirige o Laboratório de Tecnologias Sociais Universidade das Quebradas.
Seu campo de pesquisa privilegia a relação entre cultura e desenvolvimento, dedicando-se às áreas de poesia, relações de gênero e étnicas, culturas marginalizadas e cultural digital. Nos últimos cinco anos, vem trabalhando com o foco na cultura produzida nas periferias das grandes cidades, o feminismo, bem como no impacto das novas tecnologias digitais e da internet na produção e no consumo culturais.
É autora de muitos livros, entre eles: Macunaíma, da literatura ao cinema; 26 Poetas Hoje; Impressões de Viagem; Cultura e Participação nos anos 60; Pós-Modernismo e Política; O Feminismo como Crítica da Cultura; Guia Poético do Rio de Janeiro; Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone: memórias de uma trupe solitária de comediantes que abalou os anos 70; ENTER Antologia Digital; Escolhas, uma autobiografia intelectual e Explosão Feminista.
English:
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda was born in Ribeirão Preto (SP) on July 26, 1939. She graduated in Classical Literature from PUC-Rio, obtained a master's and a doctorate in Brazilian Literature from UFRJ, and completed post-doctoral studies in Sociology of Culture at Columbia University in New York. She is a writer, emeritus professor at the School of Communication of UFRJ, a full and perpetual member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in RJ, and the coordinator of the Advanced Program of Contemporary Culture (PACC-Letras/UFRJ), where she directs the Laboratory of Social Technologies University of the Quebradas.
Her research focuses on the relationship between culture and development, with a dedication to poetry, gender and ethnic relations, marginalized cultures, and digital culture. In the last five years, she has been working with a focus on culture produced in the outskirts of large cities, feminism, as well as the impact of new digital technologies and the internet on cultural production and consumption.
She is the author of many books, including: "Macunaíma, from literature to cinema"; "26 Poets Today"; "Impressions of Travel"; "Culture and Participation in the 60s"; "Postmodernism and Politics"; "Feminism as a Critique of Culture"; "Poetic Guide to Rio de Janeiro"; "Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone: memories of a lonely troupe of comedians who shook the 70s"; "ENTER Digital Anthology"; "Choices, an intellectual autobiography"; and "Feminist Explosion."
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy
Wolfram Mathematics
Bahia was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history...refuge for Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition...Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a sociocultural matrix which is all of these: a small-world matrix (see Wolfram). Human society, the billions of us, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. This technological matrix positioning creators around the world within reach of each other and the entire planet is able to do so because it is also small-world...
In small worlds great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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