Word: bossa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people thought bossa nova was dead, and most were glad to have simply survived the hucksterized flood of bossa nova dances, bossa nova shoes and sweatshirts, boogie bossa nova, soul bossa nova...
...when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were allowed to take trips to the West, a 400% increase over 1961, even though the frontier with Austria is still studded with minefields...
...gospel is what comes in after bossa nova goes the way of the twist. It's a little bit of rhythm and blues, a little bit of soul jazz, and a lot of the oldtime religion. And it has now made the nightclubs. (See Music...
...into a faint, and the only thing that can bring it around again is a new sound. The new sound quickly becomes every hipster's new groove and everybody imitates it until even little children no longer care to listen. Last year the twist was replaced by the bossa nova, but as things turned out, it was a case of a starving man rescuing one who was merely hungry. Business faded...
Soul jazz is not a fad, like the Bossa Nova. Rather, it represents a thorough-going revolution which has influenced even popular music, thanks to Ray Charles...