Resumo

Narrada em termos de naturalidade e desinteresse pelos cronistas da bossa nova, a parceria musical do poeta Vinicius de Moraes com o compositor Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim, iniciada em 1956, marca uma grande novidade na interação entre intelectuais eruditos e músicos populares no Brasil. Sua estreita ligação com a política e a indústria cultural, em âmbito nacional e internacional, estabeleceu um mecanismo de trocas em que, de maneira inédita, o erudito acessou o capital específico da cultura massiva, enquanto o popular assumiu protagonismo político e estético na representação da cultura nacional.

Revolution in Dim Light: The Political and Aesthetic Exchange in the Partnership Between Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim

Narrated with casualness and indifference by bossa nova chroniclers, the musical partnership between the poet Vinicius de Moraes and the composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim that began in 1956 represents a major change in the interactions between erudite intellectuals and popular musicians in Brazil. Their close ties to politics and the cultural industry, nationally and internationally, established a unprecedented means of exchange in which the classical artist had access to the specific capital of mass culture, while the popular artist had assumed political and aesthetic protagonism in the representation of national culture.