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Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition. By Lorraine Leu. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xii, 180 p. ISBN 0-754-63655-0. $79.95.] References, index.

Reflection is an action involving the efforts and desires of individuals caught equally in the fictions and histories of their respective epochs. The mindful imaginations responsible for innovative, creative culture, while existing in the socio-historical world, can seem distanced from collective tradition and the ideologies shaping "reality," though these worlds, of artistic intentions and values, of expression via symbolic play, and of technical innovation, remain clearly linked ...

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