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marqmlc on 2010-04-14dextepayne | 1. | As 100 Maiores Músicas Brasileiras - Rolling Stone Brasil |
| 2. | Songs about São Paulo |
| 1. | Cucurrucucu Paloma |
| 2. | O Leãozinho |
| 3. | Você É Linda |
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Mon, 13/06/2011 - 07:50
Beautiful translation. However, I think you should use the preposition "of" or "about" in the early lines. That is "I didn't understand anything about the concrete poetry..." and so on. Would your "NOT" give an idea of exclusion as the text flows to the next line? I mean "I didn't understand anything, except", this is not the case here.
mamegus
Wed, 28/12/2011 - 13:05
Caetano quoted Vínicius de Moraes when saying that São Paulo is the tomb of the samba.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u433145.shtml
Love the translation!
domuro
This song is a declaration of love/hate to the city of São Paulo, one of the largest cities of the world and the richest city in Brazil. Caetano, who wrote it is from a state called Bahia, i.e. baiano as in the last two lines. Novos Baianos is, also, the name of a band from Bahia who tried working in São Paulo. Zumbi was a slave that started the largest quilombo of the country during the 19th century. Poetas de campos is a reference to two famous modern poets from São Paulo called Campos. In São Paulo, you can find people from all over the world but people from Latin America and Africa look at home without changing most of their habits and sometimes you feel like your are in another country or continent. And I think he calls it the tomb of samba because he doesn't like the samba made here. To understand more you have to go there.