An encyclopaedic survey of Brazilian popular music that ranges over samba, bossa nova, MPB, jazz and instrumental music, and tropical rock, as well as the music of Bahia and neo-Afro trends, and the music of the Northeast. The authors have interviewed a wide variety of performers like Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Carlinhos Brown, and Airto Moreira, US fans like Lyle Mays, George Duke and Paul Winter, executive Andre Midani and music historian Zuza Homem...