| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: Brazilian popular music, MPB, and song literature -- Chico Buarque: a unanimous construction -- Other words and other worlds of Caetano Veloso -- Gilberto Gil: guidance and Afro-Brazilliance -- Milton Nascimento: sallies and banners -- Joao Bosco and Aldir Blanc: the drunkard and the tightrope walker -- Conclusion/MPB: muse, protest, and beat -- Glossary. |
| Abstract |
This is a critical study of MPB (música popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 229-234), discography (pages 235-238), and index. |
| LCCN | 88014283 |
| ISBN | 0292751028 (alk. paper) |
