Caetano Veloso's a Foreign Sound

by Barbara Browning

Book Overview

What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound "American," or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso's 2004 American songbook album, A Foreign Sound, is a meditation on these questions-but in truth, they were questions he'd been asking throughout his career. Properly heard, the album throws a wrench into received ideas regarding the global hegemony of US popular music, and also what constitutes the Brazilian sound. This book takes listeners back...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501319221
• ISBN13: 9781501319228
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"