Araçá Azul by Caetano Veloso (with Kaleb E. Goldschmitt, author of Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries)

In 1972, legendary Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso marked his return from exile by recording a baffling commercial failure that confounds listeners to this day. The story surrounding this album's creation is as captivating, and the album itself deserves a reappraisal.

Kaleb E. Goldschmitt is here to guide us through Veloso's fraught relationship with both Brazil's authoritarian government audience and his own audience. You won't want to miss this episode.

The Brazilian hip-hop album Kaleb recommends in this episode is Criolo's 2014 album Convoque seu Buda.

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Our visual art was created by Elaine Banks (@elaineprints on IG).

This podcast is recorded astride of a grave and a difficult birth by Ralph and Michael, who will be taking a brief hiatus now to gather the information and supplies necessary to complete the next stage of the mission with which they have been entrusted.