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Kanye West, nominated for nine BET music videos Award, was absent from this year’s show.

When Taylor Swift approached the stage on the night of the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Kanye West swept in to steal the show. Grabbing the microphone out of her hands, he told the crowd, “I’m sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.” Ouch.

After his public rant on the unsuspecting Swift, he later apologized telling the public of his plan to take some time out of the lime light. Many doubted the star’s sincerity. But when it was his turn for some recognition, he was not there.

At Saturday’s 4th annual BET Awards, Kanye was nominated for nine awards, among them best live performer. But when show time came around, the rapper was nowhere to be found.

Also absent from the celebration was T.I., who is currently in an Arkansas prison under federal weapons charges. T.I. was nominated for six awards and walked away the recipient of two, including Album of the Year.

In the aftermath of his interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs last month, Kanye West told Jay Leno that he planned to take some time off.

And in the weeks since that statement, his Fame Kills Tour with Lady Gaga was canceled, he didn’t appear this weekend at the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards, and he’s been relatively quiet as his latest protégé, Kid Cudi, promotes his recently released debut album.

Kanye has been posting his usual photos of things he’s interested in on his blog, but apart from a post about Derrion Albert’s murder in Chicago and one about Nabil Elderkin’s forthcoming photo book of Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour, he hasn’t spoken much there, either.

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Brazil has the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and river; Brazil has the Iguassu Falls, the biggest waterfalls in the world; Brazil has the Pantanal, the hugest concentration of wild life in America; Brazil has the longest tropical beach coast in the world, with internationally unknown paradisiacal beaches. Brazil has the biggest popular street festival in the world (the Carnival)…

Those are objective and statistically verifiable phenomena. But I would dare to add another one: Brazil also has the world’s most genuine set of musical traditions and expressions.

An assertion too bold?

Undoubtedly. And a risky one, too… I should explain myself better. I do not contest the dominance of anglo-american music, or the prominence of some higher expressions of it. I accept that. In a certain sense, if compared to north-american music, brazilian music is just a minor player in the world music panorama.

When I place the Brazilian music at the top of the world rank, I am selecting some particular expressions of it. And I am considering the way Brazilians live their music and express it.

Brazilians love music, with an intensity unknown elsewhere. In places like Salvador da Bahia the music and dance are a regular popular explosion. Until midnight on certain days of the long summer, the music doesn’t stop, with people and vendors mixing with bands and street musicians everywhere. For Bahianos (the inhabitants of Bahia) and Cariocas (the inhabitants of Rio) any occasion is suited for music.

You may ask: and the creativity, and the artistic themes? Where are the higher expressions of that music? Do they exist?

Surely. And by that I am not pointing to some major samba themes (there are major samba themes), or to the Bossa Nova of forty or fifty years ago. I mean present day music, top quality in the world (though not necessarily at the commercial top).

Some of the present day brazilian music is highly elaborated, demanding attention, with lyrics having a very broad importance (its lower international visibility is due to the language in which it is expressed: Portuguese).

There are plenty of new highly inventive brazilian composers and performers. And Brazilians love their musicians and composers. They are their gods. Gods with names like Maria Bethania, Gal Costa, Ivan Lins, Ivete Sangalo, Elis Regina, Djavan, Daniela Mercury, Elba Ramalho, Marisa Monte, Milton Nascimento, Rita Lee, Adriana Calcanhoto…

Eduardo Reisinho publishes Brazil-Travel-Guide.com

( Brazil Travel Guide), a website where you can look for more information about music, and other themes and travel information involving Brazil.

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