Book Release - Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap
Congratulations to Professor David Treece, Camoens Professor of Portuguese in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies who has just had his book
Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rappublished by
Reaktion Books -the Reverb series.
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 intervention in the country’s social and political history. It offers a f
resh and original approach, exploring how the practice of music-making reverberates with time, place and circumstance, and focusing on the relationships between music, language and culture at key points in Brazil’s musical history, such as the emergence of modern samba at the turn of the 20th century, the bossa nova revolution of the mid 1950s, the battles over music and politics in the 1960s, and the rise of rap in the 1990s. This collection of essays brings together musicological analysis, song interpretation, cultural history and political commentary in an accessible but compelling way, and includes in-depth discussions of several classic songs from the bossa nova repertoire, such as “A Felicidade”, “Garota de Ipanema and “Águas de Março”, as well as illuminating accounts of how Brazilian music has interacted with other cultural spheres such as cinema, religion, television, political resistance and race relations.
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