Documents from Gilberto Gil's Private Archive

Current: 79 79 / 68 Complete Forecast Subscriber Services Jobs Cars Real Estate Apartments Local Shopping ShopLocal Newspaper Ads All Classifieds Create an Ad Find an Ad Pets SUBSCRIBE TODAY Back to Home Entertainment The tomt erald SECTIONS ! TODAY'S EXTRAS News Legislature 2007 Obituaries Sports Entertainment Movies Music Nightlife Restaurants Stage TV Visual Arts Weekend Video Games Horoscopes Crosswords Comics Sudoku Business Tropical Life Health Travel Opinion Columnists Visitor's Guide EINuevoHerald.com SEARCH FOR: Movies Movie Theaters Concerts Restaurants Bars & Clubs & On Stage All Events ONLINE FEATURES Calendar of Events Contests Message Boards Special Publications Miami Herald.com H Brickell's Last Bay front Site. Search: • Miami Herald.com Archives for : By EVELYN MCDONNELL emcdonell@Miami Herald.com Brazilian minister of (counter) culture: Gilberto Gil AUSTIN, Texas - Gilberto Gil has a quietly intense energy. The elegant pioneer of Brazilian song and gentle politician pulls his hair back in a ponytail, keeping the vestige of '60s rebellion discreetly maintained. His long, tapered fingers strum the air as he speaks. The Brazilian minister of culture would seem to be a model of diplomacy. But beneath the Zen surface lies a postcolonial lion. "What's at stake is the sharing, not the gaining, not the what I take from you, it's what we both take from life that matters," says Gil. He's sitting in a hotel room on the eve of his first tour in the United States since taking office in '03 (the tour brings him to the Knight Concert Hall tonight in a copresentation with the Rhythm Foundation) and several days after President Bush's visit to Brazil, about which he's pontificating **This is the new cultural ingredient, this is the novelty, this is what categorize as a soft power, the power that's not conquering anything. It's not there to conquer it, it's there to share. This is the new concept of power. This is hippie." Gil should know. Forty years ago he was one of the founders of Tropicalia, the most important countercultural movement in Latin America and given its continuing impact on cross-hemispheric politics and recent enshrinement in a globe- traveling museum exhibition, a peer San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury heyday and the Parisian student uprising. Tropicalia fused nationalistic interest in native cultural forms with the heady changes of international pop culture - it mixed samba and email print reprint or license AIM del.icio.us Digg it ' Audio Gilberto Gil's 'Aqui E Agora If you go What: Concert by Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil When: 8 tonight Where: Camival Center for the Performing Arts, Knight Concert Hall, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami How much: $15-$75 Info: 305-949-6722, 786-468-2326 or www.carnivalcenter.org rock. As Gil said in a presentation at the South By Southwest conference here, it was the last modernist movement and the first postmodernist one." For his innovations, Gil was imprisoned by Brazil's military dictatorship in 1969 and then exiled. As Gil has said, "Once I was the stone-thrower, now I am the glass." But this glass reaches out to the stone. The appointee of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is using his political power to make the sort of changes he might have envisioned as a young radical funding community cultural centers that, among other things, are training grounds for Brazil's And it's donc MIAMI ART ENTRAL 5960 SW 57 AVENUE MIAMI, FL 33143 I TEL 305-455-3333 mlamlartcentral.org Introducing the all-new BMW X5 with our xDrive, all-wheel-drive system. Enter Keyword(s): City: Select a Category All Job Categories - State All United States Search