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Informationen zum Autor Frederick J. Moehn is Lecturer in Music at King’s College London, UK and an affiliate of the King’s Brazil Institute there. His recent publications include the article “Curating Community at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem” (in the journal Jazz Perspectives , 2013) and the book Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene , (Duke University Press, 2012). He has also published in the journals Ethnomusicology , Latin American Music Review , Journal of the American Musicological Society , Popular Music , and Ethnomusicology Forum , and he contributed to the edited volumes Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization , Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures , and Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship . He enjoys performing samba and bossa nova (voice and guitar) and is part of Embaúba Ensemble with students and colleagues at King’s. Klappentext 1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his 'samba-rock' fusions and hits such as 'País Tropical' and 'Mas que Nada', picks up the electric guitar and records the album África Brasil . With grooves structured around guitar and horn riffs, funk drumming, samba percussion, and hypnotic vocal refrains, this album has become a favorite of connoisseurs of 1970s Brazilian vinyl. It was part of the growing cultural negritude of the time in Brazil, especially in Rio. American musicians such as James Brown were increasingly influential there; meanwhile, disco began to reach the city's nightclubs, and a few musicians were getting hip to Afrobeat. Through a close examination of the tracks on this seminal album, this book explores how Jorge Ben Jor and fellow musicians created a new sound, and it probes how ideas about blackness, Africa, and Brazilian identity were evolving during the mid-1970s. Written in a clear style and based on new research, it offers an engaging narrative that will appeal to fans, students, and scholars. 33 1/3 Global , a series related to but independent from 33 1/3 , takes the format of the original series of short, music-basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more. Vorwort A close examination of Brazilian musician Jorge Ben Jor’s 1976 album África Brasil and its influences. Zusammenfassung 1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his 'samba-rock' fusions and hits such as 'País Tropical' and 'Mas que Nada', picks up the electric guitar and records the album África Brasil . With grooves structured around guitar and horn riffs, funk drumming, samba percussion, and hypnotic vocal refrains, this album has become a favorite of connoisseurs of 1970s Brazilian vinyl. It was part of the growing cultural negritude of the time in Brazil, especially in Rio. American musicians such as James Brown were increasingly influential there; meanwhile, disco began to reach the city’s nightclubs, and a few musicians were getting hip to Afrobeat. Through a close examination of the tracks on this seminal album, this book explores how Jorge Ben Jor and fellow musicians created a new sound, and it probes how ideas about blackness, Africa, and Brazilian identity were evolving during the mid-1970s. Written in a clear style and bas...
