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Caetano Veloso and
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
September 1, 2002
Pages
354
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375407888
ISBN-10
037540788X
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.55 lbs.
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Original list price
$26.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In a chronicle of his nearly four-decade career, the Brazilian musical superstar describes how he and friends from Bahia created tropicalismo, a movement that propelled Brazil into the vanguard of world art, and profiles the personalities surrounding him--his sister, singer Maria Bethania, poet Chico Buarque, filmmaker Glauber Rocha, diva Gal Costa, and others. 20,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Inadequately described as the John Lennon or the Bob Dylan of his country, Caetano Veloso has virtually personified Brazilian music for thirty-five years. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, he tells the heroic story of how, in the late sixties, he and a group of friends from the Northeastern state of Bahia created tropicalismo, the movement that shook Brazilian culture--and civic order--to its foundations and pushed a nation then on the margins of world politics and economics into the pop avant-garde.
Tropical Truth begins with a childhood in the Bahian hinterland, where Caetano (as Brazilians of all ages now call him) first heard not only the musical traditions of his own country and her Latin neighbors, but also the giants of postwar American song: Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Chet Baker, to name but a few. While teenagers in America would soon be enthralled by the primal (and commercial) beat of rockânâroll, in Brazil it was bossa nova, that sublimely sophisticated music, that was to become the soundtrack of a generation. Inspired above all by bossa novaâs supreme master, João Gilberto, Caetano and his crew would set about creating a totally new sound. Tropicalismo would aim to âcannibalizeâ the extraordinary beauty and richness of Brazilâs musical past but at the same time to assimilate eclectically the most original elements of Anglo-American pop, an influence many rejected as yet another form of imperialism corrupting Brazilâs âauthenticâ character.
The birth of tropicalismo coincided with the wave of counterculture sweeping Western nations, but in Brazil that wave would hit the breakwaters of a brutal military junta. While supporting resistance to right-wing oppression (and the terrible social inequities it perpetuated) the tropicalistas nevertheless rejected the automatic connection to the Left and its unreflective nationalism, then the politics de rigueur of the artistic class. Their third way foresaw a Brazil open to free markets but likewise free in itself. It was a vision so subversive of both the political and musical status quo that before long Caetano faced imprisonment and was then forced into exile until the early seventies. But when he returned, it was in triumph: Brazil, no less than the state of her popular music, would never be the same.
Rich with the satisfactions of a novel, weaving the story of a country with that of its most idealistic generation, Tropical Truth recounts the odyssey of a brilliant constellation of artists: Caetano and his sister Maria Bethânia, the queen of Brazilian song; the black musical genius Gilberto Gil, Caetano's closest collaborator, with whom he was jailed and then banished; the great diva Gal Costa; the revolutionary filmmaker Glauber Rocha; the brothers de Campos, those luminaries of concrete poetry, who were among the tropicalistasâ learned mentors. Here is an unparalleled confluence of highbrow and pop, and with it the genesis of what has become one of the most wildly successful cultural exports ever produced by a nation other than the United States.
By turns erudite and playful, dreamlike and confessional, Tropical Truth is an utterly unexpected revelation of Brazil's most famous artist, one of the greatest popular composers of the past century.
Tropical Truth begins with a childhood in the Bahian hinterland, where Caetano (as Brazilians of all ages now call him) first heard not only the musical traditions of his own country and her Latin neighbors, but also the giants of postwar American song: Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Chet Baker, to name but a few. While teenagers in America would soon be enthralled by the primal (and commercial) beat of rockânâroll, in Brazil it was bossa nova, that sublimely sophisticated music, that was to become the soundtrack of a generation. Inspired above all by bossa novaâs supreme master, João Gilberto, Caetano and his crew would set about creating a totally new sound. Tropicalismo would aim to âcannibalizeâ the extraordinary beauty and richness of Brazilâs musical past but at the same time to assimilate eclectically the most original elements of Anglo-American pop, an influence many rejected as yet another form of imperialism corrupting Brazilâs âauthenticâ character.
The birth of tropicalismo coincided with the wave of counterculture sweeping Western nations, but in Brazil that wave would hit the breakwaters of a brutal military junta. While supporting resistance to right-wing oppression (and the terrible social inequities it perpetuated) the tropicalistas nevertheless rejected the automatic connection to the Left and its unreflective nationalism, then the politics de rigueur of the artistic class. Their third way foresaw a Brazil open to free markets but likewise free in itself. It was a vision so subversive of both the political and musical status quo that before long Caetano faced imprisonment and was then forced into exile until the early seventies. But when he returned, it was in triumph: Brazil, no less than the state of her popular music, would never be the same.
Rich with the satisfactions of a novel, weaving the story of a country with that of its most idealistic generation, Tropical Truth recounts the odyssey of a brilliant constellation of artists: Caetano and his sister Maria Bethânia, the queen of Brazilian song; the black musical genius Gilberto Gil, Caetano's closest collaborator, with whom he was jailed and then banished; the great diva Gal Costa; the revolutionary filmmaker Glauber Rocha; the brothers de Campos, those luminaries of concrete poetry, who were among the tropicalistasâ learned mentors. Here is an unparalleled confluence of highbrow and pop, and with it the genesis of what has become one of the most wildly successful cultural exports ever produced by a nation other than the United States.
By turns erudite and playful, dreamlike and confessional, Tropical Truth is an utterly unexpected revelation of Brazil's most famous artist, one of the greatest popular composers of the past century.
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (September 1, 2002)
9780375407888 | details & prices | 354 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $26.00
About: In a chronicle of his nearly four decade career, the Brazilian musical superstar describes how he and friends from Bahia created tropicalismo, a movement that propelled Brazil into the vanguard of world art.
About: In a chronicle of his nearly four decade career, the Brazilian musical superstar describes how he and friends from Bahia created tropicalismo, a movement that propelled Brazil into the vanguard of world art.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Da Capo Pr (October 8, 2003)
9780306812811 | details & prices | 368 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $18.00
from Gardners Books (July 7, 2003)
9780747568018 | details & prices | 368 pages | List price $20.65
About: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil.
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