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Brazilian jive : from samba to bossa and rap / David Treece.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML 3487 .B7 T73 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Treece, Dave, author.
- Series:
- Reverb series
- Reverb series.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Brazil--History and criticism--20th century.
- Popular music.
- Music--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- More and more people are discovering Brazil's fascinating culture, especially the striking exuberance and inventiveness of its popular music. In Brazilian Jive, David Treece uncovers the genius of Brazilian song, both as a sophisticated, articulate art form crafted out of the dialogue between music and language and as a powerfully eloquent expression of the country's social and political history. Focusing on the cultural struggles of music-making in Brazil, this book traces their journey from the rise of samba through the bossa nova revolution of the late 1950s to the emergence of rap in the 1990s. It describes how Brazilian music grew out of the pain and dispossession of slavery and, inspired by African traditions, how it celebrates new ways of moving freely in time and space. Resonant with the rhythms and tones of the modern, the Brazilian soundscape also expresses the country's dissonances and contradictions, while the conversation between melody and word often signifies a larger dialogue between its artistic and political cultures. Looking deep into those cultures, Brazilian Jive provides fresh insight into how the life of a nation has been performed in some of the world's most remarkable music. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Brazilian jive talk: music, language, community
- The bossa nova revolution
- Three masters, three masterpieces: Jobim, Moraes, Gilberto
- Guns and Roses: Brazil's music of popular protest, 1958-68
- Orpheus in Babylon: music in the films of Rio De Janeiro
- Rap, race and language: the aesthetics and politics of black music-making
- Chronology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (page 225), discography (page 226), filmography (page 226), and index.
- ISBN:
- 1780230850
- 9781780230856
- OCLC:
- 854680940
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