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Brazil -- Popular Music | |
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is contemporary Brazilian music. |
· Appleby, David P. (1983). The Music of Brazil. University of Texas Press.
· Guillermoprieto, Alma. (1991). Samba. Vintage Books.
· McGowan, Chris, and Ricardo Pessanha. (1998). The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil. New Edition. Temple University Press.
· Perrone, Charles A. (1989). Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985. University of Texas Press.
· Perrone, Charles A., and Christopher Dunn (eds.). (2002). Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization. Routledge.
· Vianna, Hermano, and John C. Chasteen (eds.). (1999). The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil. University of North Carolina Press.
· MIDI Music from Brazil: Bossa Nova, Samba.... http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9609/
· All Brazilian Music. http://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/Home/Home.asp
· The Villa-Lobos and Brazilian Popular Music Reference Page. http://web.archive.org/web/20060214033643/http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Opera/9223/
· The Brazilian Sound: A Guide to Brazilian Music, Books, Movies and Culture. http://www.thebraziliansound.com/
· Slipcue E-Zine: Brazilian Music Guide. http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/brazillist.html
· Brazilian Music -- Samba, Bossa Nova, Brazilian Jazz. http://www.brazilianmusic.com/
· Astrud Gilberto. http://www.astrudgilberto.com/
· UpToDate Radio Music: Brazilian Music on the Web. http://www2.uol.com.br/uptodate/radio/indexe.html
· Browning, Barbara. (1995). Samba: Resistence in Motion (Arts and Politics of the Everyday). University of Indiana Press.
· Dunn, Christopher. (2001). Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. University of North Carolina Press.
· Fryer, Peter. (2000). Rhythms of Resistence: The African Musical Heritage of Brazil. Wesleyan University Press.
· Krich, John. (1993). Why Is This Country Dancing? A One-Man Samba to the Beat of Brazil. Simon and Shuster.
· McGovern, Adam (ed). (2000). Music Hound World: The Essential Album Guide. Photographs by Jack and Linda Vartoogian; Forewords by Angelique Kidjo and David Byrne. Visible Ink Press.
· Veloso, Caetano. (2002). Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil. Knopf.
· Wright. Simon. (1992). Villa-Lobos. Oxford University Press.
-- DISCOGRAPHY --
· Bossa Nova and Samba. (Dejavu Retro Gold, 2001). A terrific anthology, but no English translation of lyrics.
· Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical. (Luaka Bop 49022, 1989). English translations of lyrics.
· Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical 2. (Luaka Bop 49025, 1998). English translations of lyrics.
· Brazil Classics 2: O Samba. (Luaka Bop 49023, 1989). English translations of lyrics.
· Brazil Classics 3: Forro, etc., Music of the Brazilian Northeast. (Luaka Bop 49024, 1991). English translations of lyrics.
· Brazil Classics 4: The Best of Tom Ze. (Luaka Bop and Warner Bros., 1990). English translations of lyrics.
· Canta Brasil: The Great Brazilian Songbook. (Verve, 1990). English translations of lyrics.
· Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento. (Atlantic, 2000). English translations of lyrics availabie at Atlantic Records website.
· Marisa Monte: Mais. (World Pacific, 1991). English translations of lyrics.
· Marisa Monte: A Great Noise. (Metro Blue, 1996).
· O Essencial de Escolas de Samba. (Focus, 1999).
· The Rough Guide to Samba. (World Music Network, 2001).
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