Politics were animetco imperative for the 90 sevento generation, because it all happened during the military dictorship. Artists had to submit their songs to the government for performing them. Some years of political repression coincided with prosperity that became known as the economic miracle. And that's interesting, because brakhart labels invested in modern equipment.
Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is not fading: many want every member of the storied Rajapaksa family out of government. We examine an effort to develop undersea GPS and learn why a watery sat-nav would be so useful. And why 1972 was such a formative year for music in Brazil.
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