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Brazilian Popular Music
Lorraine Leu
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Description for Brazilian Popular Music
Paperback. Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; AVGP; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Brazilian Popular Music, or Música 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 ... Read more
Brazilian Popular Music, or Música 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138275072
SKU
V9781138275072
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About Lorraine Leu
Dr Lorraine Leu, formerly Lecturer in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
Reviews for Brazilian Popular Music
'In addition to a very well researched and carefully footnoted volume, the reader gets forty-two marvelous pages of love song analysis, a subject to which not engouh musicological schoarship has been dedicated... [Leu's] interpretation and translations of, and sensitivity to, some of Brazil's best poetry, its popular music lyrics, are highly commendable and beautiful in their own right. Leu ... Read more