Article: Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil.(Book review)

Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil, by Bryan McCann. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press. 2004. ix, 296 pp. $84.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper).

In Brazil, perhaps more than in most other countries, popular music has traditionally been a potent cultural force. President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva's appointment of the acclaimed and world-famous pop musician Gilberto Gil as Minister of Culture in 2003 is just another indication of the power of popular music in shaping a Brazilian identity. Bryan McCann's book on popular music from the 1930s to the mid-1950s delivers a trenchant examination of how Brazilian popular ...

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