Analysis of the relationship between popular music and satirical cartoons about the foundation of Brasília, published in Careta (humor magazine of Brazil). The initiative to construct the new capital by the government of Juscelino Kubitschek was the object of fierce controversy, dividing public opinion, besides being challenged by the National Democratic Union – UDN (main opposition's party). Initially, we investigate social uses and appropriations of popular music to criticize JK's project. Then, we examine the affinities between humor magazine and mainstream media, sharing the opposition to the federal government, as well as the defense of liberal political culture. Hereafter, we analyze the musical controversy about Brasília, involving different subjects, genres and social practices. At last, by evaluating the iconographic series, we study disputes over social imaginary of the new city, reinvented as negative utopia, the distopia Brasiliæ.
political cartoon; Careta magazine; popular music; liberal political culture
