"Chiclete com Banana: Internationalization
in Brazilian Popular Music" (historical introduction) and fifteen (15)
topical essays by authors from Brazil, the USA, and around the world. Including
and featuring, performing singer-songwriter extraordinaire Caetano Veloso
film
music, diasporic aesthetics, carnaval, axé music, samba-reggae,
reggae, planetary MPB, mangue beat, tropicalismo 60-90s, metaleiros mineiros,
funk and related issues discussed and exemplfied in fresh approaches
