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发信人: JazzMore (爵士猫), 信区: Rock
标题: What is Bossa Nova?
发信站: 荔园晨风BBS站 (Sun Jan 5 12:29:18 2003), 站内信件

Try to be more accurate, I prefer English version.

Created in Brazil in the late 1950s during a period of political change and
economical growth, bossa nova has been often described as the music of the
Brazilian middle and upper classes. This music style originated in the
wealthy neighborhoods that sprouted along the beaches of the city of Rio de
Janeiro and both its music and lyrics were composed by middle and
upper-class musicians and marketed to the same economic group. For this
reason, bossa nova was criticized by some for emphasizing a carefree way of
living that little resembled the life of most Brazilians, the great
majority of which belonged to the working class.
Indeed, bossa nova compositions often spoke of love, the beach, and
beautiful women and seemed to be a depiction of the author's bohemian life
rather than a tale of Brazilians' daily struggles as usually happened with
samba, a music genre popular among the working class. The Girl from Ipanema
which became popular outside of Brazil both in its original Portuguese form
and in translation, is a perfect example of the uncommitted quality of
bossa nova songs. The Girl from Ipanema is nothing more than the composer's
description of a woman walking down towards the beach, the sweet way in
which she moves and how beautiful she is, culminating with the author's
statement that she's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen go by. The
music that accompanied the first wave of bossa nova lyrics, while unique,
used the same altered chords found in jazz music combined with the drum
beat characteristic of samba.
Perhaps ironically, bossa nova, the music style associated with
complacence, is also considered responsible for the birth of the protest
music of the 1960s that denounced the political uproar Brazil found itself
in that led to the military coup of 1964. Critical of the insipid character
of bossa nova lyrics and influenced by the precarious political and
economic situation of Brazil, artists started using music to voice their
opinions and as a vehicle to teach the largely uneducated Brazilian
population about their country's current social, political and economic
status.
Following the coup of 1964, a new generation of bossa nova musicians
emerged. The music they composed was radically different from that created
by the first generation of bossa nova musicians and depicted the plight of
the Brazilian population and denounced the country's newly installed
military government. In addition, this new type of bossa nova music had a
nationalistic character that its predecessor lacked. This new wave of bossa
nova musicians not only sang about the hardships of Brazilians, especially
about the life in the drought-stricken northeastern region of the country;
the music they composed to accompany their lyrics also made use of
traditional Brazilian instruments and borrowed from other genres of
Brazilian music like the type of samba heard in the urban slums. But in
spite of the differences that distinguish them from one another, both
styles of bossa nova were intrinsically linked to Brazil's history and
reflected the historic period in which they were created, one born during a
time of growth and the other created in a time of struggle.

Written by M. Isabel Viana

PS:anyone interested in it can go to www.slowdown-music.de . I hope you
will like it.

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