Saturday, April 14

Caetano Veloso...

Here is an interview with Caetano Veloso by Christopher Dunn from 1996, it appeared in Transition.

The interview follows Dunn's book Brutality Garden, and is quite insightful. Dunn gives a brief biography of Veloso and Gilberto Gil before beginning the conversation. I found it very interesting to read Veloso's first hand account of the emergence of the Tropicalista Rebellion, and fascinating to hear that he refers to himself as "just a radio singer." Interesting coming from someone so influential in raising the question of what it means to be Brazilian, and then forcing the answer to change.

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