Gilberto Gil

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DECEMBER 2021

Anaïs Fléchet - SCIENCES PO STRASBOURG

TRANSLATION : Aurelie Perrier

TOPIC : Music

PLACES : South Atlantic - Africa - Europe - South America - North America

PERIODS : The Atlantic Space Within Globalization - The Consolidation of Mass Cultures

DOI : 10.35008/tracs-0003

ABSTRACT

“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the Tropicália movement to his collaboration with Jimmy Cliff, famous Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist Gilberto Gil has been an important cultural broker. His trajectory captures the range of musical genres of the Atlantic world.