Orfeu Extático Na Metrópole by Nicolau Sevcenko

A cultural history that traces how the Orphean myth and its aesthetics were reworked by Brazil’s modernist vanguards, showing how music, visual art and political debate intersected in the urban metropolis; the book examines transatlantic exchanges and local cultural networks, the city as a staging ground for new artistic identities, and the ways avant-garde practices repurposed classical and popular forms to negotiate questions of modernity, taste, and national belonging.