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Aquarela do Brasil
Prelude
On March 31st, 1964, a military coup took control of the Brazilian government and deposed the democratically elected Joao Goulart.
They adopted nationalist and anti-communist policies.
To control the public, they censored the artists, tortured the revolutionaries, and controlled the media
The artists didn’t back down.
They spoke out in covert ways, hiding their messages inside layers of lyrics and instruments.
This piece is based off real history.
Carimbador maluco
Stop, wait a minute where do you think you’re going? Nuhuh
ACT 1: The calm before the storm (pre-dictatorship)
The military takes over the government on March 31st, 1064
The University of Brasília was invaded on April 9, 1964, by army troops and military police who were ready for confrontation.
They invaded classrooms, searched students, and searched for weapons and “subversive” propaganda material.
Divino Maravhiloso
Pay attention
Girl, pay attention!
Pay attention
Act 2: Spread (1964-1968)
Indirect elections for the President of the Republic was established in 1965, allowing congress to choose the president
Pay attention
Girl, pay attention!
Pay attention
Pay attention, everything is dangerous
Pay attention to the chorus, WOW
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
A new constitution was ratified in 1967, it temporarily closes the National Congress
Pay attention, everything is dangerous
Pay attention to the chorus, WOW
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
It’s necessary to be alert and strong
We don’t have time to fear death
On March 28th 1968, high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto was shot point-blank and killed in a protest against high food prices at a restaurant.
6 others were injured.
On the morning of April 4th a mass was held in his memory.
The Military Police Cavalry surrounded the church and attacked dozens of people with sabers.
That night, another mass was held. The clergy formed a human corridor to allow people to exit safely.
The Cavalry waited for them to exit and attacked them anyway.
Construcao
Act 3: Infection (1968-1972)
Their eyes dull with cement and tears
Habeas corpus is a legal procedure.
It invokes the jurisdiction of a court to review the unlawful detention or imprisonment of an individual.
It also states that the detainee must be brought to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful
They floated in the air as if they were a bird, and ended up on the group like a limp bag, agonizing in the middle of the public sidewalk
He died in the wrong lane, disrupting traffic
Habeas corpus is suspended in 1968
Censorship expanded to the press, arts and entertainment
University professors were forcibly retired
Brick by brick in a logical patter, their eyes dulled by cement and traffic
The DCDP: Divisão de Censura de Diversões Públicas (Public Entertainment Censorship Division) is founded in 1972
The DCDP was responsible for authorizing or censoring and overseeing public performances, reproductions, publications and media content (including presentations, music, plays, books, films, series, soap operas, and more) in national territory
He floated in the air as if it were Saturday, and ended up on the group like a timid bag, agonizing in the middle of the public shipwreck
He died in the wrong lane, disrupting people
“Subversive” people were kidnapped, tortured and sometimes disappeared.
He died in the wrong lane, disrupting Saturday
For this bread to eat, for this floor to sleep
The certificate to the born, the concession to smile
For letting me breathe, for letting me exist
God bless you
Act 4: Reclamation (1972-1980)
Pra nao dizer que nao falei das flores
Walking and singing, and following the song
We’re all the same, united or not
In the schools, on the streets, fields and buildings
Walking and singing, and following the song
Come on let’s go, waiting is not knowing
Who knows when it’s time, don’t wait for it to happen
Come on let’s go, waiting is not knowing
Who knows when it’s time, don’t wait for it to happen
There are armed soldiers, loved or not
Almost all lose, weapons in hand
In the barracks, they teach them an old lesson, of dying for the country and living without reason
Come on let’s go, waiting is not knowing
Who knows when it’s time, don’t wait for it to happen
Come on let’s go, waiting is not knowing
Who knows when it’s time, don’t wait for it to happen
Come on let’s go, waiting is not knowing
Who knows when it’s time, don’t wait for it to happen
Come on let’s go, waiting is not knowing
Who knows when it’s time, don’t wait for it to happen
E preciso dar um jeito meu amigo
Act 5: Resistance (1980-1988)
We need to find a way, my friend
We need to find a way, my friend
Resting won’t be enough,
When we rise so much happens
The economy collapses in 1980
The Diretas Já (Direct Elections Now) public protest movement began in 1983 following 18 years of indirect elections
We need to find a way, my friend
We need to find a way, my friend
Yes, we need to
Yes we need to
We need to find a way
We need to find a way, my friend
Yes, we need to
We need to find a way, my friend
Yes, we need to
Yes, we need to
Yes, we need to
We need to find a way, my friend
We need too
Yes, we need to
Yes, we need to
We need to find a way, my friend
Yes, we need to
On May 8th, 1985, the National Congress passed a constitutional amendment that ended some parts of the dictatorship and returned voting rights
In 1988, a new constitution was made, returning Brazil to its institutional normality and defining the role of the Armed Forces as defenders of the State and the constitutional order
The government released a military document officially acknowledge the practice of torture and executions in 2014.
In total, 434 people were killed or disappeared due to political persecution, not counting the roughly 20 thousand people who were tortured or the indigenous genocide that claimed the lives of more than 8,350 indigenous Brazilians.
Most of those killed and disappeared were young students linked to political organizations
Act 6: Reflection (present day)
For I see the scent of a new season coming on the wing,
I know everything in the living wound in my heart
On the wall called memory, that memory is the painting that hurts the most
My pain in realizing, that despite everything that we did
We’re still the same and live
We’re still the same and live
Like our parents
Our idols are still the same, and appearances do not deceive
You said that after them, no one else appeared
You might even say I’m out of touch, or that I’m making it up.
But you’re the one who loves the past and doesn’t see
But you’re the one who loves the past and doesn’t see
That someone new always comes
My pain in realizing, that despite everything, everything, everything that we did
We’re still the same and live
We’re still the same and live like our parents
Bows
Vai passar
It will pass
On this avenue a popular samba
Every cobblestone of the old city
Tonight you will get goosebumps
When remembering
That immortal sambas passed here
That bled here at our feet
That our ancestors danced samba here
In a time
Unhappy page in our history
Faded passage in memory
Of our new generations
I slept
Our motherland so distracted
Without realizing that it was being subtracted
In dark transactions
Your children
They wandered blindly across the continent
They carried stones like penitents
Raising strange cathedrals
And one day finally
They had the right to fleeting joy
A breathless epidemic
Which was called carnival
Carnival, carnival (will pass)
Cheers to the hungry barons wing
The block of dark Napoleons
And the pygmies of the Boulevard
My God, come look
Come see a singing city up close
The evolution of freedom
Until the day dawns
Oh, what a good life, oh lerê
Oh, what a good life, oh lará
The banner of the general sanatorium will pass
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