O melhor da moda de viola

Brazil has its country music, too—a distant stepchild of Portuguese folk, transplanted to a new world and held together by one instrument: the viola caipira, a 10-string guitar that, in its ringing uplift, recalls both fado and the folk music of Greece. Laced with accordions, and most often sung in duos, these songs tremble with nostalgia for the country's dusty hinterlands.