Chico Buarque's First Chico Buarque

Professor Charles A. Perrone (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7979-6 (ISBN)

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Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist’s most representative. This vibrant collection displays the singer-songwriter’s singular talents as a composer/poet of songs with both popular appeal and keen analytical skills. The 11 tracks include both up-beat sambas and lyrical compositions: witty tunes, dramatic laments, international items, and, especially, epochal protest songs with fascinating histories.

The album embodies Chico Buarque's affective sensibilities and sociopolitical engagement, and this book situates the album in inter-related contexts: the artist's own career; the evolution of the current he represents MPB (Brazilian Popular Music); and, especially, historical conjuncture—the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, 1964-85.

Charles A. Perrone is Professor Emeritus of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Culture and Literatures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida, USA. He is the author of Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985 (1989), Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism (1996), and Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas (2010). He is co-editor of Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (2001) and Crônicas brasileiras: A Reader (2014). He has translated numerous contemporary Brazilian writers, most notably poets such as Augusto de Campos and Paulo Leminski.

Acknowledgements

Preface: The Origins

1. Intro: Pagings and Stagings

2. The Product: Data and Strata

3. PPP: Persons, Personnel, and Parapheranalia

4. Setting the Table, On the Ground

5. Spelling Out a Partnership in Rhyme

6. A Trio of Stage Tunes

7. A Loose Can(n)on

8. Happy Comrades Abroad

9. A Cup, A Chalice, A Gem

10. In Spite of You, Tomorrow Will Be Another Day

11. Outro: Rio, Brazil, and Beyond

Bibliography / Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3 Brazil
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-7979-8 / 1501379798
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7979-6 / 9781501379796
Zustand	Neuware