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Caetano Veloso

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...Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso is a Brazilian pop musician, author, and political activist. Born on August 7, 1942, in Santo Amaro da Purificacao, Brazil, Veloso is one of seven children. One of his sisters, Maria Bethânia, considered...

Gilberto Gil’s Refazenda

Marc A. Hertzman

Marc A. Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, with a focus in Latin America. He is the author of Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (2013) and is currently working on a project about the historical memory of the death of Zumbi, the iconic leader of Palmares, Brazil's massive 17th-century fugitive slave settlement. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

33 1/3 Books

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...Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans...

Tropicália

Alvaro Neder

Alvaro Neder

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music

ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013

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...Tropicália was a Brazilian musical movement in the late 1960s that was formed mainly by Bahian composers and interpreters, such as leaders Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, composer Tom Zé, singers Gal Costa and Nara Leão, lyricists Torquato...

Música Popular Brasileira (MPB)

Larry Crook

Larry Crook

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music

ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013

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...MPB (an acronym for Música Popular Brasileira or Brazilian popular music) is the generic denomination for a plurality of genres and hybrid musical practices that have prevailed in Brazilian popular music since the 1960s. MPB is an important...

Rock Brasileiro (Brazilian Rock)

Jesse Wheeler

Jesse Wheeler

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music

ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013

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...Rock performed by people from Brazil dates to Nora Ney’s 1955 cover of “Rock around the Clock” and Celly Campelo’s 1959 “Estúpido Cupido,” a translation of “Stupid Cupid” presented on the national television show Chacrinha. Brazilian rock...

Northeast Brazil

Elba Braga Ramalho

Elba Braga Ramalho

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume III : Locations: Caribbean and Latin America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 47,741,711 (2000) The common definition of northeast Brazil covers the states of Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia and Sergipe, although the association of part...

Brazil

Rafael José De Menezes Bastos

Rafael José De Menezes Bastos

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Allan De Paula Oliveira Discographies

Allan De Paula Oliveira Discographies

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume III : Locations: Caribbean and Latin America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 182,032,604 (2003) Brazil is located in the central eastern part of South America, sharing boundaries with all the countries in the continent but Ecuador and Chile. It is a federal republic, comprising 26...