CURATION
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Network Node
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Name:
Tiago Rogero
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City/Place:
Rio de Janeiro
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Belo Horizonte, Mina Gerais
Current News
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What's Up?
Depois do sucesso de crítica e público dos podcasts Vidas Negras e Negra Voz, Tiago Rogero se consolidou como um dos principais nomes do jornalismo brasileiro com o projeto Querino, empreitada de fôlego que chega agora em sua terceira fase com a publicação do livro projeto Querino: um olhar afrocentrado sobre a história do Brasil. Baseado no 1619 Project, trabalho da jornalista estadunidense Nikole Hannah-Jones para o The New York Times, Rogero propõe um olhar sobre a história do Brasil a partir da centralidade do povo negro.
Com uma pesquisa minuciosa empreendida por uma equipe de especialistas de peso, o projeto Querino abarca, além do livro, um podcast produzido pela Rádio Novelo em 2022 — vencedor do prêmio Vladimir Herzog em 2023 e um dos mais ouvidos do streaming — e uma série de matérias publicadas na revista piauí no mesmo ano. Mais de quarenta profissionais trabalharam no projeto.
Agora, o livro conta com material inédito que amplia os oito episódios do podcast — incluindo entrevistas e imagens de figuras negras que foram apagadas dos manuais de história. Com firmeza e afeto, Rogero conduz o leitor pelo caminho da excelência e da dor em direção a uma nova compreensão da presença negra na construção do Brasil. Nesse sentido, o livro resgata a relevância de pessoas sequestradas e escravizadas — e a de seus descendentes —, ao mesmo tempo que denuncia os desdobramentos da diáspora no país de hoje.
Como bem descreve Ynaê Lopes dos Santos no texto de orelha do livro: “O projeto Querino é um banho de chuva. Chuva que molha, encharca, incomoda, nos obrigando a pisar em um chão quase pantanoso. Mas, passado o tempo, ela limpa e até refresca. Os pés seguem encharcados e são eles que pisam firme, abrindo espaço para uma nova escuta”.
De Luiz Gama a Chiquinha Gonzaga e Jorge Ben, passando por dona Laudelina de Campos Melo até chegar na PEC das Domésticas, este livro se torna um retrato histórico-jornalístico potente de como o racismo, e também a agência do povo negro, formam o alicerce deste país.
English:
After the critical and public success of the podcasts *Vidas Negras* and *Negra Voz*, Tiago Rogero has established himself as one of the leading names in Brazilian journalism with the project *Querino*. This ambitious endeavor is now entering its third phase with the publication of the book *Projeto Querino: um olhar afrocentrado sobre a história do Brasil* (Project Querino: An Afro-Centered View of Brazilian History). Based on the 1619 Project, a work by American journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones for The New York Times, Rogero proposes a perspective on Brazilian history from the centrality of Black people.
With meticulous research conducted by a team of prominent experts, the *Querino* project includes not only the book but also a podcast produced by Rádio Novelo in 2022—winner of the Vladimir Herzog Award in 2023 and one of the most listened-to on streaming platforms—and a series of articles published in the magazine *piauí* that same year. More than forty professionals worked on the project.
The book now features new material that expands on the eight episodes of the podcast, including interviews and images of Black figures who have been erased from history textbooks. With both firmness and empathy, Rogero guides the reader through a path of excellence and pain towards a new understanding of Black presence in the formation of Brazil. In this sense, the book recovers the significance of kidnapped and enslaved individuals—and their descendants—while also highlighting the impacts of the diaspora in present-day Brazil.
As Ynaê Lopes dos Santos aptly describes in the book’s foreword: “The *Querino* project is like a rainstorm. A rain that soaks, drenches, and irritates, forcing us to tread on almost swampy ground. But after some time, it cleanses and even refreshes. Our feet remain soaked, but they are what tread firmly, paving the way for a new listening experience.”
From Luiz Gama to Chiquinha Gonzaga and Jorge Ben, from dona Laudelina de Campos Melo to the PEC das Domésticas (Domestic Workers Amendment), this book becomes a powerful historical-journalistic portrait of how racism, as well as the agency of Black people, forms the foundation of this country.
Life & Work
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Bio:
Jornalista, correspondente de the Guardian na América do Sul.
Criei e coordenei o projeto Querino, lançado em agosto de 2022 como um podcast narrativo produzido pela Rádio Novelo — vencedor do Prêmio Jornalístico Vladimir Herzog em 2023 — e uma série de publicações na revista piauí. O podcast também foi nomeado um dos 10 melhores trabalhos jornalísticos em áudio de 2022 pelo Prêmio Gabo.
Escrevi o livro do projeto Querino, que aprofunda e amplia o conteúdo do podcast, com previsão de lançamento para setembro de 2024, pela editora Fósforo.
Fui gerente de criação na Rádio Novelo e repórter de O Globo, O Estado de S. Paulo e BandNews FM. Fui diretor da Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (Abraji) no biênio 2022-2023.
Criei e apresentei os podcasts narrativos Vidas Negras (original Spotify, produzido pela Rádio Novelo), que foi finalista do Third Coast International Audio Festival de 2021; e Negra Voz (pelo jornal O Globo), vencedor do Prêmio Jornalístico Vladimir Herzog em 2020.
Em 2019, fui fellow do International Center For Journalists (“A Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America”), nos EUA, com foco na produção de podcasts.
Nasci em Belo Horizonte, em 1988, e, desde abril de 2011, moro no Rio de Janeiro.
English:
Journalist, South America correspondent for the Guardian.
I created and coordinated projeto Querino (inspired by NYT’s ‘1619 Project’), which was published in the form of a podcast produced by Rádio Novelo and a series of articles in piauí Magazine. The podcast won Brazil’s main journalistic award, the Vladimir Herzog (2023), and and was named one of the 10 best audio journalistic works of 2022 by Premio Gabo.
I wrote projeto Querino’s book, which deepens and expands the content of the podcast, scheduled for release (in Portuguese) in September 2024 by Brazilian publisher Fósforo.
I was a creative manager at Rádio Novelo and was previously a reporter at O Globo, O Estado de S. Paulo, and BandNews FM, and served as a director of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) for 2022-2023.
I created and hosted the narrative podcasts Vidas Negras (a Spotify original produced by Rádio Novelo), which was a finalist at the 2021 Third Coast International Audio Festival; and Negra Voz (for O Globo), winner of the Vladimir Herzog Journalistic Award in 2020.
In 2019, I was a fellow with the International Center For Journalists (ICFJ), in the USA, focused on podcast production.
I was born in Belo Horizonte/Brazil, in 1988, and, since April 2011, live in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
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We use the mathematics of the small world phenomenon to transform the creative universe into a creative village wherein all are connected by short pathways to all... (Wolfram explains how above)
This Integrated Global Creative Economy uncoils from a sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix...
Great culture is great power.
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"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"
Our Matrix was conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found us (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 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, 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.
The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
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Wolfram MathWorld
Ex Terra Brasilis
Alicia Svigals
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Roberto Mendes
Luciano Calazans
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
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