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英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—18

I would say bossa nova is a kind of soft samba, maybe played a little bit slower, just with the guitars, simpler, and very light singing, soft singing, and soft guitars doing the rhythm. Not a lot of drums like the big samba schools, maybe just a few

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—20

Tom Jobim wrote many of his songs here in the countryside outside Rio. Jobim lived and worked in the house that his son and grandson are now restoring. He studied a lot Chopin, Debussy, Brahms also. He liked to wake up very early. And hes in this hou

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—22

And in April 1962, the two of them released Jazz Samba, reworking Joao Giilberto and Jobim songs like Desafinado. Remarkably for a jazz album, it became a best-seller and stayed in the American charts for a quite astonishing 70 weeks. Bossa nova sudd

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—1

Brazil's history has been expressed through its national passion for music. Samba, the country's dominant musical style, was used by politicians in the '30s in an attempt to create unity and a sense of national identity in this vast multi-racial stat

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(The) military strike in '64 was...the worst thing that ever could happen to this country, because until today, we have never recovered from that. It was bad times. It was bad times. But at the same time, I think that the opposite of that was, that /

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—23

I don't know. In Brazil they said it was a big mess. But I think it was important there. And the most important thing is that many of the musicians / went there to play in the concert. They stayed there and then they began to work around, like Oscar

英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—11

I think we were playing exactly what the Beatles did. We were, we thought that we were playing rock'n'roll, you know. I think Brazil is such a kaleidoscope of information, especially then. There was no information, so we used to pick up music from, t