| | TOM ZÉ AND THE TROPICALIST EXPERIENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Basic to understanding Tom Ze's sound recordings is their inclusion of all manner of verbal decomposition, musical satires, and "serious" self-contemplative songs laden with metaphorical structures. |
 | | Repercussions of concrete poetry are found in Tom Ze's spatial ordering of words, phonemic clusterings, various other kinds of syllabic explorations, and efforts to break down discursivity and semantics to underscore sound values of language. |
 | | Tom Ze's varied songs, although not as numerous or widely known as those of fellow Bahians Gil and Caetano, can show equal literary sophistication and certainly belong in the corpus of compositions to be regarded as representative of the poetry of song in contemporary Brazil. |
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