Bob Dylan released "Mozambique" in 1976, a song that many mozambicans only discovered with the assignment, on Thursday, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the american author, and that, forty years ago as now, is far from generating consensus.
Bob Dylan composed the theme with Jacques Levy in 1975, the year of the proclamation of independence of Mozambique, and, when it was released on the album Desire and also as a single in 1976, generated discussion by be a letter from a singer of intervention that treats the country with some gentleness at the end of a decade of armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism.
Forty years later, Aurelio Le Bon, one of the most well-known entrepreneurs shows, Mozambique, considers that the theme of the new Nobel Literature prize should be a reason of pride for the mozambican people, but the writer Mia Couto do you think just the opposite.
"it is Not a large letter, has a relationship who is just passing through the tourist and Mozambique does not seem to me that there should be great pride in it," said the Portuguese Mia Couto, who declined to comment on the controversial appointment of the Nobel Literature prize this year.
The novelist and poet, winner of the Camões Award in 2013, recalls of the song have been circulating in Mozambique in 1976, but in a discreet way, and that only now, with the award of the Nobel prize, there are more mozambicans to seek the theme, "has a beautiful harmony in spite of the letter surface".
four decades Ago, Bob Dylan wrote that "you like to spend some time in Mozambique", though it is doubtful that I ever visited a country where "the sunny sky is blue-water" and all the couples dancing close, there are beautiful women, a lot of time for romance and, in the only reference that can be clearly interpreted as political, inhabited by "lovely people living free."
When it was released as the lead single, "Mozambique" hit the 54.St place of the top the Billboard Hot 100, giving popularity to a country that had just gained its independence, but that, soon following, was devastated by a civil war that lasted 16 years and cost the lives of about a million people.
unlike Mia’s, Aurelio Le Bon argues that the Nobel Literature prize awarded to Bob Dylan should," without a doubt, be a source of pride" for Mozambique.
"When few in the world knew that there is a land called Mozambique, since Dylan was talking of the charms of this country", said to Lusa the promoter of the shows, which in 1989 brought the Maputo Eric Clapton for a memorable concert in the capital of mozambique.
at A time that Mozambique has been in the news in the world by financial scandals and insecurity, said the entrepreneur, have the name of the Nobel Literature prize associated with the country helps to raise the self-esteem.
"Mozambique has never been only the country of negatives, but the connection to a star such as Bob Dylan reinforces this image of a country, the hospitable and pleasant", it was considered Aurélio Le Bon.
The businessman remembers that when "Mozambique" came out in 1976, the music lovers, especially in the main cities of mozambique, gave account of the interest of Bob Dylan by the country and so helped to galvanize the local music scene linked to the genre of the american artist.
"what would you like the same that happened was that Dylan came to play here, to achieve the physical form that emotional attachment, because it never came here", emphasized Marcus Le Bon, and alluding to the common idea that the author has never been to the country, although it has written "Mozambique" motivated by reasons equally uncertain.
According to the Swedish Academy, Dylan, 75, won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 "for having created a new poetic expression within the great tradition of song in the north american".
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