Caetano Veloso's A Foreign Sound

What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound “American,” or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso''s 2004 American songbook album, A Foreign Sound, is a meditation on these questions-but in truth, they were questions he''d been asking throughout his career. Properly heard, the album throws a wrench into received ideas regarding the global hegemony of US popular music, and also what constitutes the Bra...