Resumo

A trajetória artística do cantor, compositor, produtor musical e radialista Abílio Manoel, falecido em 2010, confunde-se com o turbilhão de acontecimentos políticos que dominaram o Brasil entre o final dos anos de 1960 e a obscura década de 1970, cujos ventos trouxeram para cá a Nova Canção latino-americana. Iniciando sua carreira como compositor e cantor romântico, o caráter engajado de seu trabalho, foco desse artigo, manifesta-se em meados dos anos de 1970: data de 1972 o seu Lp América Morena; e, a partir de 1978 até 1982, produz e veicula o programa América do Sol na rádio Bandeirantes. O presente artigo, no rastro da carreira artística de Abílio Manoel, examina o lugar e os sentidos atribuídos à música popular latino-americana no Brasil, sobretudo a Nova Canção, durante a ditadura militar.

Abílio Manoel and the ola latino-americana in 1970s Brazil

The artistic career of Abílio Manoel – a singer, composer, musical producer and broadcaster who died in 2010 – is confused with the maelstrom of political events that dominated Brazil between the end of the 1960s and the obscure decadeof 1970s, whose winds have brought here the Latin American New Song. He starts his career as a composer and romantic singer, the committed nature of his work, in which we focus, it manifests in the mid-1970s: his LP América Morena is from 1972; and from 1978 until 1982 he has produced and propagated the program América do Solin Bandeirantes radio. The present article, in the trail of the artistic career of Abílio Manoel, examines the place and the meanings attributed to the Latin American popular music in Brazil, especially the New Song, during the military dictatorship.