Books Reviewed 163 been able to reach wider audiences than Itamar Assumpção, for
example, an MPB misfit from São Paulo who made waves in the early 1980s. Yet, Moehn …

The usual assumptions regarding the relation between culture and repression are often
represented by way of a notion of culture interrupted by censorship and violence exercised …

In Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles,
journalist-turned-art historian Claudia Calirman presents a history of Brazilian artistic …

Based on three case studies involving works by artists Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio and
Cildo Meireles, Calirman articulates an interpretation that takes into consideration both …

Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and
the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until …

Brazilian Popular Music, or M 'sica Popular Brasileira (MPB), developed in the mid 1960s as
a response to the re-thinking of Brazilian national identity following the establishment of the …

Por ser o tipo de obra cada vez mais rara entre nós, o erudito e rigoroso estudo de Pedro
Carlos Louzada Fonseca, Bestiário e discurso do gênero no descobrimento da América e …

National identity has been both a dream and a nightmare for historians. When they attempt
to historicize the concept, it becomes a thick web of actors, motives, and unintended …

Sean Stroud examines how and why Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have
such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) within Brazil has been …

The two books discussed here treat the music known as tropicdili essentially playful
Brazilian genre of mass-mediated music that began in hia and flourished in Sio Paulo. The …