Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization
“Chiclete com Banana: Internationalization in Brazilian Popular Music”
See synopsis and links below
Charles A. Perrone and Christopher Dunn
Jackson do Pandeiro (1919-1982): the wizard from the Northeast of Brazil who launched “Chiclete com Banana” (1959), a transnational “song for all seasons”
The historical introduction is the longest segment in the volume. After contextualizing Brazilian popular music globally, different senses of the term “internationalization” are explored. The overview of genres, styles, key artists, and movements spans the late nineteenth century to the turn of the twenty-first century. Highlights include samba in the 1920s-30s, Carmen Miranda at home and abroad, US/ Disney representations (see a samba curiosity; see Gone to Bahia and a famous trio), bossa nova, (see Jobim and Gal), MPB, Tropicalia, BRock and Minas metal, neo-Afro-Bahian marvels [especially samba-reggae] (see an afro trio eletrico and an afoxé ), soul-funk-rap, and 90s’ innovations (including tropical rock) in the ever-surprising region of the illuminated Jackson do Pandeiro himself.
