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# Chris McGowanThe Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil

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## Customer Reviews

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    If you are a fan of Brazilian music - buy this book now! If not, buy this book now and you will be.
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2021*

Truly epic research and incredible history of Brazilian music and its evolution over the decades. Sometimes these books can read dry and technical like a history book. This one does not - the artists and groups are brought to life and connected to the environment in which the music emerged. I love all forms of Brazilian music and this book opened my ears to new artists and genres I was previously unaware of. Definitely worth your time and money. Great read!

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    THE Book About Brazilian Popular Music
  

*by V***O on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013*

"The Brazilian Sound" is THE book on Brazilian popular music, valuable to both neophytes and aficionados of the magnificent music of Brazil. Arguably the world's most musical nation, where music is the very fabric of life, Brazil influences musical styles worldwide. This book is thorough yet concise, with tons of photos, a priceless primer as you explore the genres and legendary musicians in the land of samba, bossa, chorinho, frevo, axe, and on and on. I have both the earlier softcover edition (heavily underlined and annotated) and the newer Kindle edition. I use them as references for a Brazilian music program that I cohost on a Pittsburgh station. We refer to this little book as "the Bible."

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    The Brazilian Sound
  

*by H***A on Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2002*

The Brazilian Sound is good as far as it goes - a who's who list and discography of 20th century Brazilian music.  Although, the book has the feel of a junior college textbook, it's written in plain language.  It would be a relatively easy read if it were not that a parenthetical list of Brazilian names breaks up every third or fourth paragraph.  There are some very informative passages - notably the chapter on Bossa Nova and the "Escolas de Samba" section of Chapter 2.  At their best, the authors provide clear and comphrensive explanations of the geneology and sociological context of the music.Unfortunately, unless a person is willing to spend countless shopping hours and a couple of thousand dollars building up collection of Brazilian records, he or she will gain almost no insight from this book into what the music feels like. The authors describe individual works and artists in only vague terms - terms often identical to those previously used to describe others.  They beat the term "syncopation" into irrelevance - it's clear only that all Brazilian music is syncopated.  The authors habitually refer to folk music genres and song forms ala "Composer X's work is all based on the Y song form..."  But they provide no practical examples or definitions of those genres or forms.The authors stridently dumb-down their text, accepting as axiom that one has to "hear it to believe it" and that it is meaningless to describe Brazilian music in technical terms.  They generally refrain from even using common musical terms - bar, measure, pulse, key, etc. - to give the reader a clearer understanding of Brazilian rhythmic and harmonic structures.  They use few effective musical comparisons or verbal metaphors.  It is understandably difficult to describe music in writing.  But it is possible.  Judicious use of metaphor, comparisions, and technical descriptions would have greatly fleshed out what in the end comes off as a skeletal text.This 1998 edition serves as the update to the first, apparently published in 1990 or 1991.  However, the amendments appear to have been quite minor - embodied by an isolated paragraph here and there, and four meager pages in the final "More Brazilian Sounds" chapter.  It's as if nothing has really happened in the evolution of Brazilian music since 1990 - an impression that must be wrong.The Brazilian Sound catalogs decent research, but is neither good writing nor effective music history.

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