Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World Book

Introduction and Acknowledgments	viii
Foreword	x
Prologue: Juazeiro, 1948	xv
Part I: The Great Dream	1
1. The Sounds That Came out of the Basement	3
2. Hot Times at the Lojas Murray	15
3. Battle of the Vocal Ensembles	31
4. The Mountains, the Sun, and the Sea	51
5. Torchy Copacabana	65
6. The Gang	83
7. In Search of the Lost Self	95
8. The Arrival of the Beat	107
9	One Minute and Fifty-Nine Seconds That Changed
Everything	125
10. "Desafinado" (Off-Key)	145
Part II: The Long Holiday	159
11. Bossa Nova Goes to School	161
12. Colorful Harmonies	175
13. Love, a Smile, and a Flower	193
14. It's Salt, It's Sun, It's South	207
15. Bossa Nova for Sale	213
16. "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema)	229
17. A Bite of theApple	243
18. The Armed Flower	259
19. Shuttle Service	275
20. The Diaspora	297
21. The World as an Exit	317
Epilogue: What Happened to Them	333
A Select Bossa Nova Discography	337
Glossary	347
Index	350