Marginália

Arte & Cultura "na Idade da Pedrada"

(Marginalia: Art & Culture In the Stoning Age)

Marisa Alvarez Lima

Editora Salamandra, Rio de Janeiro 1996

180 color pages

(tel. 55-21-240 63 06 - fax. 240 47 55)

"As a journalist I actively and passionately participated in what I suspected to be an extremely important cultural moment, made by an enthusiastic generation that wanted to break all limits. During the 60's and until the early 70's I wholly dedicated myself, by my two monthly pages in 'A Cigarra' and in reports in 'O Cruzeiro' (these two being Brazilian magazines), some of them exclusive, such as Caetano's home imprisonment in Bahia, to documenting that revolutionary moment which was the sudden consciousness of the Brazilian reality. "

O Cruzeiro has a message- exclusive

Editor Almir Muniz

This time a special message. Absent from the news for more than six months, Gilberto Gil returns talking of new things: in an exclusive interview with our reporter Marisa Alvarez Lima, Gil speaks of his new songs, other people's music, of his uncertain plans. Next month he goes to Europe. "I don't know what will happen. I don't know anything but I'm going". An extremely calm man, avoiding definitions and polemics, contrasting with the driven, agitated Gil of a few months ago. Today he turns to macrobiotics, to meditation, to alphomega...