Revaluation of samba in Chico Buarque’s critic song.

Resumen

Samba music, in the song creation of Brazilian composer Chico Buarque, becomes a revalued genre and a critical tool to express social and political ideas through a renewal on its lyrical style. The song Apesar de Vocé studied in this paper was in 1970 Brazilian dictatorship a symbol of liberation. This paper brings up the composer’s redefinition of the genre.