Word: brazile
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Anyway, we get to talking. "Brazil is an intense place," says Beck. "The music can be gentle but there's a lot of life happening on the street." He goes on to talk about his favorite Brazilian performers. "There are tons of them - everyone from Jobim to Caetano. Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa...
Home Anyway, that pretty much it. That's how my time at Rock in Rio went. I'm still trying to find some sense in everything, find some trends, some meanings, some currents. Brazil gives and takes from the world. The rest of the world gives and takes from Brazil. Brazil took rhythms from Africa and fado music from Portugal and bits and pieces of other genres and came up with samba. Jobim took bits and pieces of samba and parts of the kind of "cool jazz" pioneered by Miles Davis and came up with bossa nova. Caetano Veloso...
...festival are adding hip-hop, trip-hop, and electronica to samba, bossa nova and Tropicalia. They are drawing from abroad but creating something Brazilian. After all, as Max de Castro points out, some of the foreign music that younger Brazilian so admire was inspired, in part, by Brazil to begin with. Sting gets a Grammy nod for singing the music of Ivan Lins, Beck draws from Tropicalia. So why not take it back? Why not create a new Brazilian music for the people of Brazil...
...half-dozen Brazilian acts dropped out of Rock in Rio, upset that foreign superstar acts, in their estimation, were getting better treatment than the local bands, when, after all, local bands often sell better than superstar foreigners in Brazil. Brazilian musicians have sense of their own worth...
...leave Brazil on Sunday, the last night of the concert. There is something wrong with the plane - a part has gone wrong, so they're going to try to fix the part (which could take three hours) or order the part (which could take two days). I decide that, in airline speak, the same argot which calls a muffin a breakfast and a strip of rotten chicken an entree, three hours means nine hours and "could take two days" means the plane is going down in a fiery ball of flame. I rebook my trip through Miami and figure...