{"id":325,"date":"2020-12-10T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:58:53","slug":"maracatu-atomico","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/publications\/brazilian-popular-music-and-globalization\/maracatu-atomico\/","title":{"rendered":"Maracatu at\u00f4mico"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maracatu at\u00f4mico<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Maracatu at\u00f4mico&#8221; (Nelson Jacobina-Jorge Mautner,1972)<br>\nCovers: Gilberto Gil (1974 BR; 1978, USA), Chico Science (4 BR, 1996, 1 USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>1. Atr\u00e1s do arranha-c\u00e9u tem o c\u00e9u tem o c\u00e9u \/                     [Behind the sky-scraper there&#8217;s the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>e depois tem outro c\u00e9u sem estrelas                                and then there&#8217;s another starless sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Em cima do guarda-chuva tem a chuva tem a chuva \/      Above the umbrella \/ rain-guard there&#8217;s the rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>que tem gotas t\u00e3o lindas q at\u00e9 d\u00e1 vontade de com\u00ea-las    with such pretty drops that it makes you want to eat them<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>2.  No meio da couve-flor tem a flor tem a flor \/            In the middle of the cauliflower there&#8217;s the flower<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>que al\u00e9m de ser uma flor tem sabor\/                               that beyond being a flower has flavor<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Dentro da porta-luva tem a luva tem a luva \/                   In the glove-compartment there&#8217;s the glove<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>que algu\u00e9m de unhas negras e t\u00e3o afiadas se esqueceu de p\u00f4r<br>\n                                                                               that someone with sharpened black fingernails forgot to put on<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>3.  No fundo do para-raio tem o raio tem o raio \/         At the bottom of the lightning rod there&#8217;s lightning<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>que caiu da nuvem negra do temporal\/                        that fell from the black cloud of the storm<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Todo quadro negro \u00e9 todo negro \u00e9 todo negro \/          Every black picture is all black<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>e eu escrevo seu nome s\u00f3 pra demonstrar o meu apego  and I write its name just to show how close I am<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>4.  O bico do beija-flor beija flor beija flor\/                The beak of the humming-bird hums to (kisses) flowers<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>e toda a fauna-flor grita de amor                               and all the fauna-flower shouts with love<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Quem segura o porta-estandarte tem arte tem arte \/  He who holds the banner-bearer* is artful<br>\n                                                                                 (* in maracatu or samba school, for ex.)<br>\ne aqui passa com ra\u00e7a eletr\u00f4nico maracatu at\u00f4mico<br>\n                                                                  and here comes, with electronic guts-nerve (race), the atomic maracatu]<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"parent":195,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-325","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions\/610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}