K. E. Goldschmitt
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- October 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190923525
- eISBN:
- 9780190923563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190923525.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter investigates how Brazilian musicians adjusted their approach to appealing to audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom once the Brazilian military dictatorship descended into ...
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This chapter investigates how Brazilian musicians adjusted their approach to appealing to audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom once the Brazilian military dictatorship descended into the “Leaden Years.” Many Brazilian musicians sought to affiliate themselves with sounds that more directly linked them to the African diaspora and the Otherness of Brazilian indigeneity. Drawing on the coverage of this music in major music periodicals of the era, it shows the ways that attention to Brazilian music changed after the height of bossa nova. It features close discussions of the penetration of Brazilian musicians into the jazz fusion and funk scenes, including analyses of landmark recordings by Milton Nascimento, Sérgio Mendes, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, and Deodato.Less
This chapter investigates how Brazilian musicians adjusted their approach to appealing to audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom once the Brazilian military dictatorship descended into the “Leaden Years.” Many Brazilian musicians sought to affiliate themselves with sounds that more directly linked them to the African diaspora and the Otherness of Brazilian indigeneity. Drawing on the coverage of this music in major music periodicals of the era, it shows the ways that attention to Brazilian music changed after the height of bossa nova. It features close discussions of the penetration of Brazilian musicians into the jazz fusion and funk scenes, including analyses of landmark recordings by Milton Nascimento, Sérgio Mendes, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, and Deodato.
Betto Arcos and Josh Kun
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520294394
- eISBN:
- 9780520967533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520294394.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter presents interviews with some of the prolific Latin American session musicians in Los Angeles. These include Abraham Laboriel Sr., Justo Almario, Paulinho Da Costa, Alex Acuña, Airto ...
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This chapter presents interviews with some of the prolific Latin American session musicians in Los Angeles. These include Abraham Laboriel Sr., Justo Almario, Paulinho Da Costa, Alex Acuña, Airto Moreira, Luis Conte, and Ray Yslas. Between them, they have played on thousands of recordings for some of the world's most influential and most popular artists. Their contributions—delivered through percussion, bass, saxophone, and clarinet—helped shape songs that became international hits and albums that are still studied as masterpieces of jazz, funk, rock, pop, and R & B. Among musicians, they are legends, indispensable and reliable shape-shifting experts who can be counted on to play anything, produce any sound, slide into any groove, and lock into any genre.Less
This chapter presents interviews with some of the prolific Latin American session musicians in Los Angeles. These include Abraham Laboriel Sr., Justo Almario, Paulinho Da Costa, Alex Acuña, Airto Moreira, Luis Conte, and Ray Yslas. Between them, they have played on thousands of recordings for some of the world's most influential and most popular artists. Their contributions—delivered through percussion, bass, saxophone, and clarinet—helped shape songs that became international hits and albums that are still studied as masterpieces of jazz, funk, rock, pop, and R & B. Among musicians, they are legends, indispensable and reliable shape-shifting experts who can be counted on to play anything, produce any sound, slide into any groove, and lock into any genre.
