2002 Articles

Charles Perrone and Cristopher Dunn, eds .. Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. xii, 288 pp.

Araujo, Samuel

This book addresses the dynamics oflocally emerging musical expressions in their complex creative reactions to the global politics of cultural diffu-sion. Its contents are mainly derived from selected iinterdisciplinary con-ference papers, along with a few scholarly articles produced by members of the Brazilian academic project Socio-Anthropology of Music in Bahia (S.A.M.B.A.). The theme for these academic variations is set up by a pro-vocative essay previously published in the New York Times by the prominent Brazilian singer, composer, and writer Caetano Veloso.