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The beginnings. Amerindians, the African slaves, slave resistance, black participation in MPB -- Folkloric compendium. Folk songs and folksingers, the importance of the word, the Modinha, dances, Amerindian influences, African influences, European influences, folkloric performances, Bumba-meu-boi, kings, warriors and sailors, musical instruments, magical music-Afro-Brazilian religions -- The choro. Rio Antigo, the belle epoque, Pixinguinha, choro musicians and conjuntos, kinship bonds -- The samba. Origins, the birth of the samba schools, the golden age of the samba, Carmen Miranda, the samba-choro, the marcha-rancho, Morros Samba, Bahia in Rio: Dorival Caymmi, the northeast in Rio: Luiz Gonzaga -- The bossa nova. The pre-bossa nova period, Antonio Carlos Jobim, beginnings, Vinicius de Moraes, meetings: Encontros, Joao Gilberto, chief features of the bossa nova, the bossa nova's heyday -- Offspring of the bossa nova. The Afro-sambas, sambas de participacao and cancoes de protesto, Chico Buarque, critics and protest, Bahian tropicalism, Ieieie Brasileiro, talents and hopes -- The seventies and eighties. Rio or Sao Paulo? The samba's development, the post-bossa nova artists, Rio and its samba schools, the hinterland: a reservoir of new talent and an inexhaustible source of raw material, musica sertaneja, the Baianos, Novos Baianos Novos, Bahia de Todos os soms, the Lambada story, mineiros, the northeasterners, movimento armorial, cearenses, rockers and Paulistas, rock Brasil, the south, Panlatinoamericana -- The instrumentalists. Revolt of the instrumentalists, the musicians, instrumental groups -- Brazilian show business. Some aspects of the music industry, 'records are culture', media connections, confusion over copyright, 6:30 and 22 -- The state and music. Cultivation of music, censorship, the debate over censorship, consequences -- Glossary -- Samba schools in Rio. |
