Chris McGowan

I am a journalist who writes about interactive media, music, and ecology, among other subjects.

I'm the author of "The Brazilian Music Book" (a collection of interviews with prominent Brazilian musicians) and co-author of "The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil" (Temple University Press), an introduction to Brazilian music's history, genres, instruments and major artists. The latter book has had multiple editions and translations into different languages.

I currently write about visual special effects and virtual reality for VFX Voice, and in the past I was a columnist for Billboard, and their first writer to extensively cover interactive media. During that time, I co-authored "Entertainment in the Cyber Zone: Exploring the Interactive Universe of Multimedia" (Random House).