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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest sovereign state in Latin America. A federal republic, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country, by both geographical area and total population.It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas. ...more
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest sovereign state in Latin America. A federal republic, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country, by both geographical area and total population.It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas. ...more
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In fact what estranged me most from rock, and from that entire impulse toward Americanization, was that it reached me without carrying any trace of rebellion.
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― Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
― Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
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The fact that MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) would come to concentrate the energy of this generation only confirms the power of the tradition that made bossa nova possible: in fact, MPB has been, for Brazilians as well as for foreigners, the sound of the discovery of a dreamt-of Brazil. [...] MPB proves to be the most efficient weapon for the affirmation of the Portuguese language in the world, when one considers how many unsuspected lovers it has won through the magic of the word sung in the Bra
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― Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
― Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
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