The links between science and music are deep and their roots are directly associated to the emergence of modern science. Music has an important background in physics: it is made up of sounds tuned by culture. Concomitantly, it has often served as a metaphor and as an inspiration in how we interpret our physical world, especially in cosmological models. This paper offers an initial exploration of how topics and outlooks on science and technology have emerged and had an impact on the lyrics of popular Brazilian music in modern life. This non-comprehensive qualitative analysis aims at to be a starting point for a preliminary sketch of how topics involving science-which is a social activity immersed in a specific cultural context-can make their way into popular art forms, in this case, Brazilian music.
science and music; lyrics; science communication
