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About J.C. McGowan

Atop a volcano in Bali, 1997
 

I was born in California and currently live in Rio de Janeiro. I also write under the name "Chris McGowan."

I blog for the Huffington Post about culture, politics, environmental issues, and Brazil (my second country).

My novel The Big God Network is a near-future science fiction story set in Tokyo, Bali, Brazil and "post-America." It explores virtual reality, cosmology, and global culture, and satirizes televangelists and the Christian right.

I also write about Brazilian music and co-authored the book The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova & the Popular Music of Brazil (Temple University Press), which is now nearing its 3rd U.S. edition, and has been translated into French, German and Japanese versions.

In the past, I penned articles about culture, the arts, and ecology for the Los Angeles Times, Pulse!, Musician, and the L.A. Reader, among other publications. I was a longtime contributor to Billboard, where my Laser Scans column ran from 1989 to 1996. I was Billboard's first writer to extensively cover world music and digital media. During that time, I wrote Entertainment in the Cyber Zone: Exploring the Interactive Universe of Multimedia (Random House).
 

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