Taking Note Can You Eat Neoliberalism?
Kawell, JoAnn
On January 2, Gilberto Gil was sworn in as Brazil's culture minister. For many people in the United States, the dreadlocked musician's name was the only familiar one among the 33 members of...
...but if you want to get in touch with us the good-old-fashioned way, please note our new address-38 Greene Street 4th floor, New York, NY 10013...
...Our new phone number: 646-613-1440...
...Veloso, taking a cue from an early 20th century Brazilian art movement, responded that they were actually engaged in cultural anthropophagy---cannibalism-the consumption and digestion of foreign culture for their own ends...
...Teo will help us move toward our goal of making our website <www.nacla.org> a place you, our readers, can turn to stay in touch with Latin America between our bimonthly issues...
...in their view, the rockand-rolling Tropicalistas were willing dupes for U.S...
...For many people in the United States, the dreadlocked musician's name was the only familiar one among the 33 members of President Lula da Silva's cabinet...
...We're excited about the prospects our new neighborhood offers for working together with nearby universities and organizations...
...cultural imperialism...
...As they do so, they might take a cue or two from the international pop star's sometimes controversial career...
...All the same, his appointment sparked opposition within the Brazilian left: Gil had supported Lula's candidacy, but he is a Green Party activist, not a member of Lula's Worker's Party (PT), and some prominent PT artists complained that the musician had had no role in creating, and might not do enough to support, a PT cultural program that stresses from-the-grassroots arts including theater and videomaking...
...Gil, no stranger to the arcane idiom of cultural theorists, spoke in his inaugural address of the "semiodiversidade"-diversity of meanings-of Brazilian culture...
...The Brazilian left's quarrel with Gil has deeper roots, however: Back in the 1960s and 70s, at a time when Brazil was ruled by a U.S.-backed military dictatorship, Gil and fellow musician Caetano Veloso were creating a blend of Brazilian musical styles and U.S...
...Meanwhile, cannibal Gil has continued to walk the tightrope of building an international audience while holding on to Brazilian fans and staying politically active...
...Three decades later, if it's become clear how rock and rap can be stewed with samba, forro, and frevo to form tasty new forms of music that bring the world to Brazil and Brazil to the world...
...His fellow cabinet members could do worse than to draw from the notion of creative cannibalism as they search for ways to feed Brazilians while not being swallowed up themselves by neoliberal demands...
...With this issue, NACLA welcomes new associate editor Teo Ballv6...
...The names of Antonio Palocci, the new finance minister, Guido Mantega, the new planning minister, and a few others like those of environmental activist Marina Silva, now environment minister, will become better known outside Brazil as they help Lula navigate the treacherous shoals of international opinion and finance...
...No, we haven't gone yuppie-we're sharing a reasonably priced space with progressive book publisher The New Press...
...What they were creating, he said, was a new hybrid that was as truly Brazilian as that of the traditionalists...
...Eventually, most Brazilians-and many others around the world-came to agree...
...Our email address is still <nacla@nacla.org...
...He promised that his ministry, unlike its predecessors, would reflect Brazil's racial and regional diversity...
...And-after losing our old uptown office lease and camping out in temporary quarters for several months, we've just unpacked our boxes in new offices in New York City's SoHo district...
...it's also clear that the major record labels have learned to assimilate and sell such blends as sometimes innocuous "World Music...
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...and that Brazil's many forms of popular culture would not be marginalized as "folklore...
...Orthodox leftists frowned...
...and British-style rock that was dubbed "Tropicalismo...
Vol. 36 • January 2003 • No. 4
