Bossa Nova And The Rise Of Brazilian Music In The 1960s
This is the first ever collection of bossa nova record cover artwork, featuring stunning modernist and revolutionary designs that reflect the radical and exciting idealism of Brazil at the start of the 1960s.
As Brazil developed into an urban society, with ‘apartment living’ and consumer goods, bossa nova projected an image that was modern, sophisticated and cool.
Bossa Nova music arrived in Brazil at the end of the 1950s with an optimism and modernism that parralleled the arrival of the new Brazilian president, Juscelino Kubitschek, who promised ‘fifty years of progress in five’ in his election campaign and announced the building of a new capital city, Brasilia, deep in the heartland of Brazil. The city was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, a man who had just designed a new musical theatre production in Rio of a play written by Vinicius de Moraes and with music written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. These two, along with the singer João Gilberto were about to make Bossa Nova, the first modernist Brazilian art form, the most succesful Brazilian export since coffee.
This book is a unique collection of the cover art of Brazilian bossa nova music, containing hundreds of record covers complete with a history of bossa nova, biographies and essays on many of the artists involved in the movement.
Edited by Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker
Published by Soul Jazz Records
£25
Correction: “Lúcio Costa won a contest and was the main urban planner in 1957. Oscar Niemeyer, a close friend, was the chief architect of most public buildings and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer.” ~ Wikipedia
Hi Xavier, there is one book released in 2005 here in Brazil about the record covers of Bossa Nova called Bossa Nova e Outras Bossas and it has an amazing collection of covers. It was edit by Caetano Rodriguez & Charles Gavin (which is a famous musician here in Brazil who has an massive collection of vinyls). You should check it out, it’s a really hard to find and expensive book. It has 700 pictures of rare records of the Bossa Nova era in one heavy book.