Jobim February 14, 2008
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American popular music and Brazilian popular music are so different from each other that even though American music is popular in Brazil and Brazilian music is popular in the United States it is hard to describe one in terms of the other. Particuarly difficult is the case of Antonio Carlos Jobim, identified in the US with bossa nova, though his career spanned five decades. Who could one compare him with among American composers? Along with Chico Buarque, from the generation after his, Jobim was certainly the most important and beloved songwriter of the second half of the twentieth century in Brazil. His most well-known song was Girl from Ipanema, but the one which seems inexhaustible in its simplicity is Waters of March (Águas de Março), for which the composer wrote lyrics both in Portuguese and English, with the English being far from a simple translation of the Portuguese.
Our Music Library now has four volumes of the Complete Works curated by the family of the late composer.
Cancioneiro Jobim: M1690.18 J63 C36 2001, M1690.18 J63 C36 2007
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