Forró, a music style from Brazil’s Northeast, may be declared part of the country’s intangible heritage by 2020. The National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Iphan, is conducting a study ...
It’s 7pm but still sunny. On the plaza by the water, lots of couples are dancing; intricate steps and twirls and turns and hip swivels and joy and bodies in sync, as rhythmical accordion music plays ...
In a unanimous decision, during an extraordinary meeting this Thursday (9), the Cultural Heritage Advisory Council of the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan) declared the ...