Gilberto Gil on His Life, His Music and the Digital Divide

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:34 pm

This is running now on Democracy Now, thought some of you might be interested.

Links at the bottom.

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From Political Prisoner to Cabinet Minister: Legendary Brazilian Musician Gilberto Gil on His Life, His Music and the Digital Divide.

Forty years ago, the legendary Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was a political prisoner. Today, he is a cabinet official in the Brazilian government. As protests raged across the globe in 1968, Gil was at the center of a cultural and political revolution in Brazil known as Tropicalia. The movement was seen as such a threat to Brazil’s military dictatorship that Gil was jailed, then forced into exile, where he would become one of the world’s most celebrated musicians as well as a spokesperson for Brazil’s emerging black consciousness movement. Today, Gil remains one of Brazil’s best known artists, as well as the country’s Minister of Culture. He is now spearheading a different kind of anti-establishment revolution. This time it’s about democratizing the distribution of intellectual property rights. We spend the hour with Gilberto Gil in a wide-ranging interview on his life, his music, the black consciousness movement and the future of the internet.

http://www.democracynow.org/
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/25/f ... t_minister

Dominik · Post by **Dominik** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:07 pm

he's great!

1ntelligent Fraud · Post by **1ntelligent Fraud** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:33 pm

I lived with a Brazilian for 6 months. He turned me on to some really badass music. Gilberto Gil being one of them. I really like Jorge Ben and Gal Costa too. I think it's interesting how diverse some Brazilian musicians seem. Gilberto Gil to politics; Seu Jorge to acting.

Rogue Scrunt · Post by **Rogue Scrunt** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:18 am

OS Mutantes all the way, love Brazilian music