Analyzing the sources produced between 1968 and 1981 by the Brazilian political police and intelligence services, we could observe not only the impact of authoritarian order upon the musical scene, but also the logic of repression and control which ruled the State policy. In this period, the control of social circulations of opposite songs, focused mainly the genre known as MPB (Brazilian Popular Music), became part of the musical scene. In this article, we analyze the strategies and symbolic frame of the "making of suspicion" upon singers and composers, by repressive State services.
Brazil; Brazil; Democratic resistance