The title of Tom Zé

Tom Zé

Tom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded...

's 2005 release, Estudando o Pagode, literally means "studying pagode

Pagode

Pagode is a Brazilian style of music which originated in Salvador, Bahia , and quickly went down to Rio de Janeiro region, as a subgenre of Samba. Pagode originally meant a celebration with lots of food, music, dance and party...

" (the sub genre of samba

Samba

Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...

). This album is a three-act operetta

Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...

 about women and their relationship to men. Zé refers to the album as being masculist in that "it calls man's attention to the huge disadvantage he has created in his present relationship with women."¹ As is common in Zé's music, this album incorporates novel sounds such as a braying donkey and those created from an instrument made out of ficus

Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes, and hemiepiphyte in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The Common Fig Ficus is a genus of...

 (fig) leaves.

Track listing

1. "Ave Dor Maria" – 3:27
2. "Estúpido Rapaz" – 3:23
3. "Proposta de Amor" – 2:24
4. "Quero Pensar (A Mulher de Bath)" – 4:01
5. "Mulher Navio Negreiro" – 5:01
6. "Pagode-Enredo Dos Tempos Do Medo" – 4:10
7. "Canção de Nora (Casa de Bonecas)" – 1:47
8. "O Amor é Um Rock" – 4:14
9. "Duas Opinioes" – 4:46
10. "Elaeu" – 4:33
11. "Vibração Da Carne" – 3:38
12. "Para lá Do Pará" – 4:02
13. "Prazer Carnal" – 4:40
14. "Teatro (Dom Quixote)" – 4:52
15. "A Volta Do Trem das Onze (8.5 Milhões de km²)" – 5:06
16. "Beatles a Granel" – 3:23

Release history

Country	Date	Label
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	9 August 2005	Trama Records
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	20 April 2006	Luaka Bop Luaka Bop Luaka Bop is a world music-oriented record label established by David Byrne, former guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer of the art rock/new wave band Talking Heads. It has been a wholly independent label since leaving V2 in 2006. Previous distribution relationships included Warner and Virgin...