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

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

by Ruy Castro

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 372 PAGES

Wildly popular in Brazil, journalist Ruy Castro interviewed everyone who had anything to do with Boss Nova for this animated history. Castro captures not only the personality, import and flavor of pioneers like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto but also the spirit of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s.  (BZL47, $17.95)


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