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Brasil: A Century of Song

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Whether or not Brazil can hold out against the steady march of MTV and the multinational McDonaldisation of pop music, the legacy surveyed in this four volume potpourri is reassuringly luxuriant and multifaceted. First impressions are not entirely encouraging, since several important figures are missing from the play list: although Milton Nascimento contributes two numbers to the final disc, devoted to contemporary strands of that amorphous entity, MPB - Muisica Popular Brasileira - you will look in vain for Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso or Elis Regina. But João Gilberto, Gal Costa and the guitarist Baden Powell, among many others, do make an appearance elsewhere. Carnival, understandably, gets a whole disc to itself. The section on folk and traditional forms even throws in a field recording of a candomble religious rite, preceded by an overdue reminder that Carmen Miranda amounted to more than a model for gaudy headwear.

(The Sunday Times, 27 July 1997)

Clive Davis



1) According to the passage


a) Brazilian music has lot its identify.

b) Brazilian pop music is being jeopardized by foreing influences.

c) MPB's attempts to resist the invasion of American music have been in vain.

d) Brazil will hardly resit the invasion of foreign music.

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Answer 1

b) Brazilian pop music is being jeopardized by foreign influences.