A bossa nova, seus documentos e articulações: um movimento para além da música

Abstract

The theme of the present work is "Bossa Nova, its documents and unfoldings: a movement beyond the music”. More specifically, it is about selecting Bossa Nova related documents from 1958 to 1964 to compose the research corpus and articulate them under a methodological network process for observation. Thus, a recollection is made on how the Bossa Nova movement is formally spoken, aiming at punctuating its history, as well as the social and political context at the time it appeared. In this sequence, a partial exploration is made on the archive of Bossa Nova documents previously selected from the point viewpoint of commercial advertising, journalistic materials, LP covers, song lyrics and the movement sounds, photographs of Bossa Nova personalities and contemporaneous artistic movements, searching for evidences, common and oppositional threads, starting from the musical movement, but also in the Cinema Novo, plastic arts, design, architecture and the concrete poetry. Yet in the last chapter, this series of docu