Transcaetano: trilogia cê mais recanto

Abstract

Between the years 2006-2013, the composer Caetano Veloso, after a career of more than forty years, is experiencing a new phase as an author after having joined the youth of Cê Band (Banda Cê). During this period, he reversed expectations and, instead of being the inspiration for the young generation of his eldest son, the musician, singer and composer Moreno Veloso, the artist allows himsel to be inspired by it. The thesis discusses this phase of the artist through the analysis of his three latest albums with Banda Cê, intitled Cê, Zii e Zie and Abraçaço, and the album Recanto of the singer Gal Costa, being the last totally composed of unreleased songs of Caetano Veloso. Assuming that there is no way to read a song without considering its musical aspect, the thesis uses a number of approaches – literary, historical, sociological, anthropological, musical – to analyze the songs and albums of this period, which reveal, in this movement of exchange with the new generation, the continued effort of the artist to be a presence in the present world. Finally, it is concluded that, reaching beyond the “monument” Caetano Veloso, the composer rearises among the youth of the generation of his son, Moreno Veloso, as an artist who composes, writes, sings, thinks, discussing with a singular thought, tropicalista, the great themes of contemporaneous Brazil.