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Books
O Batuque Carioca
Grove - Copyright © 2000
by Guilherme Gonçalves and Mestre Odilon Costa
Written in English and Portuguese, this book details the history, terminology, instrumentation, and written notation for samba played in Rio de Janeiro. With detailed tablature for each instrument, groups of instruments, and the rhythm sections from the great schools of today, this is the one and only book you will need to get started in creating your very own "batucada" Rio-Style!
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The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil
Billboard Books, New Edition June 1998
by Chris McGowan and Ricardo Pessanha
The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil" is available now through Temple University Press. It was reprinted in an expanded edition in 1998. In addition, it was Amazon.com's no. 1 bestselling "world music" book of 1998. You can find it at: (amazon/usa) (amazon/uk): The authors have also created a supplementary web site: "The MPB Zone: Musica Popular Brasileira". It is full of Brazilian music links and also has a World Music links page. They are always interested in trading links with Brazil-related web sites.
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Samba
Vintage books, New York, 1990
by Alma Guillermoprieto
(ISBN 0-679-73256-X, 244 pages)
The writer is a journalist and dancer who lived for one year in the favela Mangueira where she joined the local samba school. She writes about the preparations for the Rio Carnival parade and the parade itself.
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Samba: Resistance in motion
Indiana U. Press, 1995
by Barbara Browning
A "social history of the development of the samba; candomble, capoeira and a number of the popular dances that proliferate in the carnaval of salvador. Along the way, she considers the complexity of Brazilian race relations, social identity and postmodern cultural (con)fusion." Available from: Luso-Brazilian Books, PO Box 170286, Brooklyn, NY 11217-0007. Tel: (800) 727-5876, fax: (718) 858-0690, email: LBBooks@aol.com. Contact: Curtis or Reubens.
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