RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Roçando a língua de Camões: Reverência e dessacralização do idioma português em Caetano Veloso
JF Luso-Brazilian Review
JO Luso-Braz Rev
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 126
OP 143
DO 10.1353/lbr.2005.0002
VO 41
IS 2
A1 Borim, Dário
YR 2004
UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/2/126.abstract
AB This study examines the presence of the Portuguese language as a theme in Caetano Veloso’s songwriting, prose, and interviews. Focusing specifically on two of his songs, “É proibido proibir” and “Língua,” the discussion aims to discern Veloso’s contradictory stance on language, aesthetics and ideology. For contextualization and further insight into Veloso’s linguistics and cultural politics, his views are compared to those of Olavo Bilac, in his poem “Língua portuguesa,” and to those of Fernando Pessoa, in his books Mensagem and A língua portuguesa.