num_pages: 328
description: Details the major aspect of Brazilian popular music and its relation to the formation of national identity in Brazil including a wealth of in-depth musical history about such sub-genres as choro bahia bossa nova axe music Brazilian jazz and a retrospective on leading musicians. There are extensive portraits on great singers composers like Antonio Carlos Jobim (Girl from Ipanema) and Americans such as Lyle Mays Herbie Mann who have long been associated with Brazil's music.
language: English
title: Why is This Country Dancing?: A One-Man Samba to the Beat of Brazil
publisher: Cooper Square Press