Bossa Nova The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World

by Castro, Ruy; Dibbell, Julian

• ISBN13: 9781556524943
• ISBN10: 1556524943
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as 'The Girl from Ipanema' (the fifth-most-played song in the world), 'The Waters of March', and 'Desafinado' are known from one end of the earth to the other. This book, the one and only, definitive account of the history of bossa nova, relives the culture of Rio during its heyday. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova is full of passion and betrayal, love and hate, comedy and tragedy.

Author Biography

Ruy Castro grew up in Rio to the sound of bossa nova. He has been a staff writer, reporter, and editor for more than half a dozen major Brazilian magazines and newspapers. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments	viii
Foreword	x
Prologue: Juazeiro, 1948	xv
Part I: The Great Dream	1	(158)
The Sounds That Came out of the Basement	3	(12)
Hot Times at the Lojas Murray	15	(16)
Battle of the Vocal Ensembles	31	(20)
The Mountains, the Sun, and the Sea	51	(14)
Torchy Copacabana	65	(18)
The Gang	83	(12)
In Search of the Lost Self	95	(12)
The Arrival of the Beat	107	(18)
One Minute and Fifty-Nine Seconds That Changed Everything	125	(20)
``Desafinado'' (Off-Key)	145	(14)
Part II: The Long Holiday	159	(174)
Bossa Nova Goes to School	161	(14)
Colorful Harmonies	175	(18)
Love, a Smile, and a Flower	193	(14)
It's Salt, It's Sun, It's South	207	(6)
Bossa Nova for Sale	213	(16)
``Garota de Ipanema'' (The Girl from Ipanema)	229	(14)
A Bite of the Apple	243	(16)
The Armed Flower	259	(16)
Shuttle Service	275	(22)
The Diaspora	297	(20)
The World as an Exit	317	(16)
Epilogue: What Happened to Them	333	(4)
A Select Bossa Nova Discography	337	(10)
Glossary	347	(3)
Index	350