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Paul Sneed
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psneed@ku.edu
 
 
   
Current Research
Brazilian funk music and organized crime in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
 
Current Projects
Book manuscript: Machine Gun Voices: Bandits and Bailes in Brazilian Funk
Article: "Illegal Transcripts and Outlaw Poetics in Brazilian Gangster Funk"
Research Interests
Participant Action Research, (Un)Popular Brazilian Music, Violence in Latin American Music
 
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Courses Taught
Afro-Brazilian Music and Culture, Brazilian Civilization, Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Intermediate Portuguese
 
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003)
  B.A. University of Virginia (1992)
   
Website
http://www2.ku.edu/~spanport/PERSONNEL/profiles_06/sneed_07.shtml