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Celtic
Guitar with CD (Audio)
(Paperback - October 2000)
The
Essence of Brazilian Percussion & Drum Set with CD (Audio)
by Ed Uribe
(Paperback - August 2000)
The
Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil
by Chris McGowan, Ricardo Pessanha
(Paperback)
Carnival
in Rio
by Helmut Teissl
Hardcover from Abbeville Press, Inc.
Book Published: February, 2000 |
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Tropical
Truth : A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
by Caetano Veloso
Book Description: Inadequately described as the John Lennon or the
Bob Dylan of his country, Caetano Veloso has virtually personified Brazilian
music for thirty-five years. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, he tells
the heroic story of how, in the late sixties, he and a group of friends
from the Northeastern state of Bahia created tropicalismo, the movement
that shook Brazilian culture--and civic order--to its foundations and pushed
a nation then on the margins of world politics and economics into the pop
avant-garde.
Tropical Truth begins with a childhood in the Bahian hinterland, where
Caetano (as Brazilians of all ages now call him) first heard not only the
musical traditions of his own country and her Latin neighbors, but also
the giants of postwar American song: Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Chet Baker,
to name but a few. While teenagers in America would soon be enthralled
by the primal (and commercial) beat of rock’n’roll, in Brazil it was
bossa nova, that sublimely sophisticated music, that was to become the
soundtrack of a generation. Inspired above all by bossa nova’s supreme
master, João Gilberto, Caetano and his crew would set about creating a
totally new sound. Tropicalismo would aim to “cannibalize” the extraordinary
beauty and richness of Brazil’s musical past but at the same time to
assimilate eclectically the most original elements of Anglo-American pop,
an influence many rejected as yet another form of imperialism corrupting
Brazil’s “authentic” character.
The birth of tropicalismo coincided with the wave of counterculture
sweeping Western nations, but in Brazil that wave would hit the breakwaters
of a brutal military junta. While supporting resistance to right-wing oppression
(and the terrible social inequities it perpetuated) the tropicalistas nevertheless
rejected the automatic connection to the Left and its unreflective nationalism,
then the politics de rigueur of the artistic class. Their third way foresaw
a Brazil open to free markets but likewise free in itself. It was a vision
so subversive of both the political and musical status quo that before
long Caetano faced imprisonment and was then forced into exile until the
early seventies. But when he returned, it was in triumph: Brazil, no less
than the state of her popular music, would never be the same.
Rich with the satisfactions of a novel, weaving the story of a country
with that of its most idealistic generation, Tropical Truth recounts the
odyssey of a brilliant constellation of artists: Caetano and his sister
Maria Bethânia, the queen of Brazilian song; the black musical genius
Gilberto Gil, Caetano's closest collaborator, with whom he was jailed and
then banished; the great diva Gal Costa; the revolutionary filmmaker Glauber
Rocha; the brothers de Campos, those luminaries of concrete poetry, who
were among the tropicalistas’ learned mentors. Here is an unparalleled
confluence of highbrow and pop, and with it the genesis of what has become
one of the most wildly successful cultural exports ever produced by a nation
other than the United States.
By turns erudite and playful, dreamlike and confessional, Tropical
Truth is an utterly unexpected revelation of Brazil's most famous artist,
one of the greatest popular composers of the past century.
Hardcover from Knopf
Book Published: 24 September, 2002 |
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Brazilian Bombshell: The Biography of Carmen Miranda
by Martha Gil-Montero, Montero Martha Gil
Hardcover from Donald I Fine
Book Published: May, 1989
Out of Print - Try Used Books |
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West
African Rhythms for Drumset
by Royal Hartigan (Mass Market Paperback)
Funkifying
the Clave: Afro-Cuban Grooves for Bass and Drums
by Lincoln Goines, Robby Ameen
(Paperback - July 2000)
Mana:
Authentic Guitar-Tab Edition
(Paperback - January 2001)
The
Folksong Fake Book: A Collection of over 1000 Folksongs from Around the
World
by Hal Leonard (Editor)
Book Description:
The ultimate collection of over 1,000 folksongs perfect for performers,
school teachers, and hobbyists. This book includes a huge variety of songs
spanning hundreds of years and originating from America, England, Canada,
Britain, Scotland, Ireland, and other countries. It includes all styles
of folk music, including spirituals, cowboy songs, sea chanteys, work songs,
children's songs, love ballads, protest songs, and more. Titles include:
All the Pretty Little Horses - All Through the Night - The Ash Grove -
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair - The Blue Tail Fly - Bury Me
Not on the Lone Prairie - Clementine - The Cruel War Is Raging - Danny
Boy - Deep River - Down by the Salley Gardens - The Erie Canal - Git Along,
Little Dogies - Go, Tell It on the Mountain - Home on the Range - The House
of the Rising Sun - How Can I Keep from Singing? - Hush, Little Baby -
Jacob's Ladder - John Henry - Kumbaya - Lonesome Valley - Michael Row the
Boat Ashore - The Old Chisolm Trail - Shall We Gather at the River - Shenandoah
- Simple Gifts - The Streets of Laredo - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - When
Johnny Comes Marching Home - Yankee Doodle - and many, many more! Features
the original version of each tune, and all known verses.
Plastic Comb: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.47 x 11.98
x 9.67
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; ISBN:
0634012703; Spiral edition (January 2001)
Tito
Puente's Drumming With the Mambo King
by Tito Puente, Jim Payne
(Paperback)
East
Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of
Indo-Caribbean Culture (Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music)
by Peter Manuel
(Hardcover - July 2000)
121
Favorite Irish Session Tunes
(Paperback - November 1999)
Caribbean
Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
by Peter Manuel, et al
(Paperback)
Out of Print - Try Used Books
Old-Time
String Band Songbook
by John Cohen (Editor), Mike Seeger (Contributor)
(Paperback - February 1997)
Lo
Mejor De Di Blasio El Piano De America
(Paperback - June 2000)
Out of Print
The
World's Most Popular Hanukah Songs
by Tara Publications (Editor), Velvel Pasternak (Editor)
(Paperback - January 1999)
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