Roda Viva
Roda Viva (Portuguese for 'Wheel of Life') is a Brazilian song by Chico Buarque from 1967 .
background
The song Roda Viva was written and composed by Chico Buarque. It was written for a musical of the same name that premiered in 1968 and is critical of obsessive fan culture . The protagonist of the musical is the pop star Benedito Silva, who is torn to pieces and eaten by his fans. Chicken was served to the audience. In addition, soldier actors urinated in helmets and there was a depiction of incest between Mary and Jesus.
Roda Viva was already released on the album Chico Buarque de Hollanda - Volume 3 in 1967. It is written as a samba and is about a famous singer who feels a certain pointlessness due to the passage of time.
effect
The song reached number 45 on the Brazilian charts in 1967. It won third place at the third Festival da Música Popular Brasileira in 1967. The Rolling Stone ranked Roda Viva 26th among the best Brazilian songs of all time.
The military dictatorship of Brazil at the time (1964–1988) took action against the musical by partially destroying the stage equipment during a performance at the Teatro Ruth Escobar in São Paulo by members of the Comando de Caça aos Comunistas and attacking actors. The play was canceled by the censors. Buarque was briefly imprisoned because of the musical and left Brazil shortly afterwards to temporarily move to Italy.
Web links
- Roda Viva at the 3rd Festival da Música Popular Brasileira . Retrieved February 26, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jacques Elias de Carvalho: Roda Viva (1968) de Chico Buarque: A Dramaturgia EA Cena Teatral sob a Ótica da Crítica especializada . In: Revista de História e Estudos Culturais (2004), Volume 1, Issue 1. (PDF) .
- ^ A b c John Dougan: Chico Buarque - Biography & History - AllMusic. In: allmusic.com. August 28, 2031, accessed February 27, 2018 .
- ^ David Kohut: Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 978-1-442-27642-0 , p. 100.
- ↑ RS Rose: The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000. Ohio University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-896-80243-8 , p. 144.
- ^ Charles A. Perrone: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song. University of Texas Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-292-76171-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Paulo Cavalcanti: As 100 Maiores Músicas Brasileiras. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rolling Stone Brasil .
- ^ Rinaldo de Fernandes: Textos sobre as canções, o teatro ea ficção de um artista brasileiro. Editora Garamond, 2004, ISBN 978-8-576-17025-9 , p. 31.
- ↑ Chris McGowan: The Brazilian Sound. Temple University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1-566-39545-8 , p. 76.
- ^ David George: The Modern Brazilian Stage. University of Texas Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-292-77292-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
