Book Review
Aug. 27th, 2020 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariBossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries
by K.E. Goldschmitt
This really interesting book covers the way Brazilian music has been viewed and circulated in the Anglophone world since the post-war era, especially the US and UK. Bossa nova and its widespread success in the 1960s is the thread that runs through both the music itself (in either its presence or absence) and its reception. Goldschmitt takes on the ways stereotypes, mediation, politics, and views on racial diversity have affected how US and UK audiences see and hear Brazilian music.
Not only did I get a lot out of this book, since I am not well-versed in Brazilian music, I also enjoyed reading it. Goldschmitt's prose was exactly the kind of clear and engaging writing I most want in a scholarly book. They made even complex concepts easy to grasp.
(Full Disclosure: the author is a work colleague.)
by K.E. Goldschmitt
This really interesting book covers the way Brazilian music has been viewed and circulated in the Anglophone world since the post-war era, especially the US and UK. Bossa nova and its widespread success in the 1960s is the thread that runs through both the music itself (in either its presence or absence) and its reception. Goldschmitt takes on the ways stereotypes, mediation, politics, and views on racial diversity have affected how US and UK audiences see and hear Brazilian music.
Not only did I get a lot out of this book, since I am not well-versed in Brazilian music, I also enjoyed reading it. Goldschmitt's prose was exactly the kind of clear and engaging writing I most want in a scholarly book. They made even complex concepts easy to grasp.
(Full Disclosure: the author is a work colleague.)
