Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition

ISBN: 9780754636557 (0754636550)
Edition Information: New ed
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Pages: 192
Date Published: 18th Apr 2006
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

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Contents: Culture, politics and the weight of tradition in 1960s Brazil
Style and sexual politics in the TropicA!lia period
'You don't know me at all' - challenging vocal traditions
Language, meaning and memory: the songwriting tradition
The tradition of the love song in Brazil
Unidentifiable objects of desire: Caetano Veloso's love songs
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.

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Brazilian Popular Music, or MÃºsica Popular Brasileira (MPB), developed in the mid 1960s as a response to the re-thinking of Brazilian national identity following the establishment of the post-1964 military regime. A leading figure in MPB at this time was Caetano Veloso, and it is his music and its reception that form the focus of this book. A leader of the Tropicalist movement, Veloso sought to initiate a critical debate on Brazilian Popular Music and the political and ideological foundations which underpinned its aesthetic. Lorraine Leu examines Veloso's musical and vocal styles, revealing the ways in which they play with traditional expectations between the performer and listener, and argues that they represent an important response to the severe censorship and repression of the military regime.

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