Caetano Veloso's A Foreign Sound

Barbara Browning

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781501319259
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

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 through some of Veloso's earlier considerations of American popular music, and forward to his more recent experiments, in order to explore his take on the relationship between US and Brazilian musical idioms. 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.

33 1/3 Global

33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focussing 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.

33 1/3 Japan

Series Editor: Noriko Manabe

Spanning a range of artists and genres—from the 1960s rock of Happy End to technopop band Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Shibuya-kei of Cornelius, classic anime series Cowboy Bebop, J-Pop/EDM hybrid Perfume, and vocaloid star Hatsune Miku—33 1/3 Japan is a series devoted to in-depth examination of Japanese albums of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Forthcoming titles:

Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack by Rose Bridges

Perfume’s Game by Patrick St. Michel

33 1/3 Brazil

Series Editor: Jason Stanyek

Covering the genres of samba, tropicália, rock, hip hop, forró, bossa nova, heavy metal, and funk, among others, 33 1/3 Brazil is a series devoted to in-depth examination of the most important Brazilian albums of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Forthcoming titles:

Tim Maia’s Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 by Allen Thayer

João Gilberto and Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto by Brian McCann

A Foreign Sound

Barbara Browning

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

What is a Foreign Sound?

Shamelessness

The Voice

To Croon

To Cannibalize

Standards

The Carioca

I’ll Take Manhattan

Always / So in Love

The Man I Love / Love for Sale

Body and Soul

Cry Me a River / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Summertime

Jamaica Farewell

Blue Skies / Something Good

Nature Boy

Rock and Pop

Diana

Love Me Tender

It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

If It’s Magic

Detached

(Nothing But) Flowers / Feelings

Come as You...

Table of contents

• 33 1/3 Global
• Title
• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Standards
• Rock and Pop
• Afterword
• Works Cited
• Index
• Copyright