found: Work cat.: 2002354796: Araújo, P.C. de. Eu não sou cachorro, não : música popular cafona e ditadura militar, 2002(the word "brega" began to be used to define this style of popular song at the beginning of the 1980s; through the 1970s, the expression used was "cafona")
found: Enciclopédia da música brasileira popular, erudita e folclórica, 3a ed. rev. e atualizada, 1a reimpr.(brega: term used since ca. 1982 to designate: 1) something cheap, neglected, or badly made; 2) in bad taste, synonymous with "cafona" or kitsch; 3) the most banal, obvious, direct, sentimental, and routine music possible, that does not avoid the uncreative use of musical or literary clichés. Popularly considered as music made by and for the lowest social classes, brega is generally accepted in economically more powerful segments. Its roots lie in the tragic chansonettes of Vicente Celestino, the bolero-influenced samba-canção of the 1950s, the boleros of singers like Silvinho and Waldik Soriano, and the imitators and diluters of "Jovem Guarda" pop-rock (Paulo Sérgio, Odair José, Fernando Mendes, Peninha). In the second half of the 1970s, the musical and interpretative style that would later be labeled "brega" was already formed)
found: AllBrazilianMusic WWW site, Apr. 22, 2005(under Movements, styles & genres: Brega (Tacky). Since the early 1980s, the word brega (tacky) has been used to denominate bad music, usually made for the poorly educated, with big amounts of drama and/or stupidly puerile lyrics. The origins of this undesirable branch of Brazilian music, currently regarded as almost a style, date back to the 1930s. In the following decades, samba-canção and bolero would push that aesthetic ahead, especially when interpreted by the classically trained voices of Orlando Dias (a widower who would let go of his grief on stage), Nelson Gonçalves, Altemar Dutra, Waldick Soriano, Agnaldo Timóteo, and many others. The style went on through the 90s, with bands that specialized in recreating brega standards for educated audiences. In 1999, brega culture was already so incorporated in the country's culture that Universal released a 6-CD box set, featuring the best of the worst in Brazilian music from the 70s)
notfound: Grove music online WWW site, Apr. 22, 2005;Garland encyc. of world music;Dictionary of popular music styles of the world
