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Meaning of bossa nova in English

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Bossa nova and rap, like all musics, present potential meanings and symbolic arrays which conflict and conflate with broader interpretations of society.
The goal is to introduce the band to a variety of jazz styles including, big band, be-bop, bossa nova, and other styles.
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Like their eponymous first album, it is a collection of bossa nova cover versions of 1980s new wave tracks.
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The progressivism and idealism of bossa nova's first generation was greatly tested.
Maita started singing her father's compositions and also classic sambas and bossa nova.
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Maysa's legacy, although it points to a bossa nova bias, is that of a more dramatic singer and it would be more properly linked to the bolero and samba-cano rhythm.
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Rap's textuality, perhaps not too unlike the discursive progressivism allotted to bossa nova's sometimes revolutionary disposition, consists of an aura of individualism, a celebratory, sometimes cunning protestation.
Bossa nova's famous yet arguably misplaced screen appearance in 1959 interweaves with this broader discourse, playing an indirect role in the brokering of identity carried out by elite cultural production.
This modernity fused internationally with that of ' cool' jazz, resulting in the canonisation of bossa nova within certain jazz communities.
Its modernist edge and progressivism still intact during the late 1960s, the bossa nova movement witnessed divisive political polemics within its ranks in response to the 1964 military coup.
In contrast to the effective uses of samba in the film, bossa nova lends, in its luxurious quietude of modernity, a certain commercial ' wholesomeness' and marketability to the film.
It should be noted that the term bossa nova did not become used in reference to the music until later.
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The title track is a bossa nova influenced winter love song.
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Jobim, a prolific writer on both piano and guitar, had come up with numerous melodies based on the rhythm of the bossa nova.
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He kept abreast on new developments in jazz, and his later playing incorporated elements of hard bop, bossa nova, and soul jazz.
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Translations of bossa nova

in Chinese (Traditional)
新鮑薩舞(源自巴西的一種節奏明快的舞蹈), 新鮑薩舞曲…
in Chinese (Simplified)
巴萨诺瓦舞(源自巴西的一种舞蹈), 巴萨诺瓦舞曲…
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