7/28/2023 0 Comments Roberto wanderley summer samba![]() This song was included in the album Brazil’s Brilliant João Gilberto, which was released in the United States in 1960. An English version was later released with the title “ Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars“. “ Corcovado” was written by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960 and refers to Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Corcovado mountain. These are some of the greatest songs of this period: Its more representative artists were Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos, Tim Maia and Wanderléa, among others. ![]() This movement came to be known as Jovem Guarda(Young Guard) and had huge commercial success. The Iê-iê-iê style (Brazil’s rock’n’roll of the 60s, the equivalent of France’s yé-yé) was “softer” in Brazil than in the USA or UK, adopting a more romantic style. The Bahians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were the main exponents of this movement. The Tropicália movement was also a form of protest song that appeared during the same period it was characterized by the eclectic blend of pop culture elements -such as rock- with the elite culture -the modernist and concretist schools of visual arts- having a more erudite and experimental character. Artists such as Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo would be idolized by intellectuals and were instrumental in the creation of Música Popular Brasileira (Brazilian Popular Music) or MPB, a movement initially linked to political engagement against dictatorship. It is the time of great musical festivals, when a “university” generation of composers and singers appeared. The politicization of popular music would take shape under Brazil’s military dictatorship of 1964 leading to the so-called “ protest song“, of which one of the most emblematic is Caminhando (“Walking”) by Geraldo Vandré. As the bossa nova movement evolves in the early 1960s, Brazil’s original aestheticism gives way to the introduction of political themes.
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