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Bossa Nova::Novo Brasil: The Significance of Bossa Nova as a Brazilian Popular Music

1982; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0023879100033665

1542-4278

Albrecht Moreno,

Diverse Musicological Studies

In Brazil, perhaps more than in any other Latin American nation, popular music has traditionally been a potent cultural force. It is probable, as P. M. Bardi, director of São Paulo's Museum of Art, has suggested, that “of all the arts, [music] is closest to the Brazilians' modes of feeling and expression.” Even such erudite composers as Carlos Gomes (1836–96), Alberto Nepomuceno (1864–1920), Camargo Guarnieri (1907–), Gilberto Mendes (1922–) and, above all, Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959), often found their inspiration in Brazilian folklore and the everyday lives of common people.