Full name: Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World

Author: Ruy Castro Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781556524943 9788571641372 1556524943 8571641374

Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as "The Girl from Ipanema" (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), "The Waters of March" and "Desafinado" are known around the world. Bossa Nova, a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de saudade, is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto's singular vision into the sound of a generation. Similar books: A Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster Yeah Yeah Yeah by Bob Stanley Bootleg by Clinton Heylin Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds Big Bangs by Howard Goodall Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner Respect Yourself by Robert Gordon The Brazilian Sound by Chris McGowan Tropical Truth by Caetano Veloso How Music Works by David Byrne This is Uncool by Garry Mulholland Where Did Our Love Go? by Nelson George Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick Sound of the Beast by Ian Christe Deep Blues by Robert Palmer Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds Bass Culture by Lloyd Bradley Language of the Spirit by Jan Swafford Altamont by Joel Selvin