Do cotidiano urbano à cultura: as canções de Caetano Veloso e de Chico Buarque (original) (raw)

Noting the persistence of the parallel between Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque held by the public, critics and popular music historiography, this study starts with the identification and comprehension of the process of the formulation of their artistic performances. It exceeds the simple notion of conflict and points to complementary or convergent perspectives among the two musicians. From this confrontation and systematic analysis comes a much richer dynamic about their work, which since the dawn of their careers in the mid-1960s, reveal similar characteristics to present issues related to everyday life, the relation between daily life/culture and city/poor suburbs. With an intense artistic activity reflecting the impact of industrialization, market development and cultural transformations, at the same time their songs also dealt with wider issues of Brazilian culture and society, thus forming representative as well as peculiar artistic careers, whose several correlations expressed perceptions and actions with a certain social basis, able to reveal continuities and transformations in the fabric of history.