A menagerie of free-to-attend musical engagements offers something for every palate. We’ve got goth moods, punk-rock riots, ...
Yet to its credit BBC Four, given a substantial hour-long space for documentary exploration, desists from making things quite that simple. The Girl from Ipanema: Brazil, Bossa Nova and the Beach, ...
At the bossa nova’s start in the late 1950s, the music was composed largely by male Brazilian sensualists. They sang their love songs at clubs along Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach in a whispered ...
To virtually all Americans, the words "bossa nova" are synonymous with Brazilian jazz. More specifically, they immediately trigger memories of bossa nova's greatest American hit, "The Girl From ...
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