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Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades

By Sharp, Daniel B.

Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades

By Sharp, Daniel B.

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The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Arto Lindsay, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Os Mutantes, and Milton Nascimento.
This book traces the 15 years (1964-1979) leading up to Naná's Saudades (1979, ECM), an album evoking his sonic memories of Brazil that he recorded while in Germany. Saudadesfeatures berimbau, a one-stringed instrument that looks like a bow and arrow, alongside onomatopoetic vocals and the strings of the Radio Symphony Stuttgart. Daniel B. Sharp hears Naná's playing as a counterargument against dishonest notions of the primitive just as world music emerged as a genre. With a gourd, a stick, a wire, a wicker basket, and a stone, Naná made music as complex and contemporary as the ARP synthesizers in vogue at the time.
Product details
Number of Pages:
270
Release Date:
2021-11-18
Publication Date:
2021-11-04
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501345710
ISBN13:
9781501345715
Weight:
384 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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