Description
Book SynopsisCharles A. Perrone is Professor Emeritus of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Culture and Literatures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida, USA. He is the author of
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985 (1989),
Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism (1996), and
Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas (2010). He is co-editor of
Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (2001) and
Crônicas brasileiras: A Reader (2014). He has translated numerous contemporary Brazilian writers, most notably poets such as Augusto de Campos and Paulo Leminski.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: The Origins 1. Intro: Pagings and Stagings 2. The Product: Data and Strata 3. PPP: Persons, Personnel, and Parapheranalia 4. Setting the Table, On the Ground 5. Spelling Out a Partnership in Rhyme 6. A Trio of Stage Tunes 7. A Loose Can(n)on 8. Happy Comrades Abroad 9. A Cup, A Chalice, A Gem 10. In Spite of You, Tomorrow Will Be Another Day 11. Outro: Rio, Brazil, and Beyond
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