Walter Wanderley

Walter Wanderley

The "Bossa Nova" ForgottenBy Fernando Torres
Michael Caine
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Length10h 25m

About this audiobook

This book is characterized as the result of an ethnomusicological and historical research by Recife musician Walter Wanderley (1932-1986), known as a representative of Bossa Nova. Organist, pianist, arranger and sporadic composer, Walter Wanderley has released dozens of records on record labels such as Odeon, Philips, the American company Verve and many others, both as an instrumentalist and arranger for singers and as solo instrumental albums. Even with such a robust record production, Walter Wanderley seems to have been forgotten by most records in the History of Brazilian Popular Music. This book tries to help understand how this success happened predominantly only outside his country of origin and the reasons why his name was practically omitted by historiography and by important references of Bossa Nova. As was his performance in other genres such as Samba, Bolero, Sambalanço and Sambajazz, which are much more present in his work than Bossa Nova itself, a genre for which the artist came to be labeled as representative, especially after his death. The book makes a contribution to the construction of knowledge for Ethnomusicology, Musicology and other areas of study of Brazilian Popular Music in its relations with the cultural industry and with the aspects between Memory and Forgetfulness.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir
Length10 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 29, 2021
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
124.2 SAMBALANÇO
2INTRODUCTION
134.3 SAMBAJAZZ
31. WALTER WANDERLEY
144.4 THE “SONORITY” WALTER WANDERLEY
41.1 WHO WAS WALTER WANDERLEY?
155. CULTURAL INDUSTRY
51.2 THE INFORMATION ON THE DISCS
165.1 PHONOGRAPHIC AND CULTURAL INDUSTRY IN THE 1950s AND 1960s.
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62. WALTER WANDERLEY´S DISCOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL
175.2 AGAINST THE GRAIN OF THE HISTORY
73. WALTER WANDERLEY IN THE USA
186. CONCLUSIONS
83.1 RECORD PRODUCTION IN THE USA
197. BIBLIOGRAPHY
93.2 PHONOGRAPHIC INTERVAL
20ANNEX I
104. BOSSA NOVA, SAMBALANÇO & SAMBAJAZZ
21ANNEXES II
114.1 BOSSA NOVA
22ANNEXES III

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