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From Showboat-to-Samba: Transculturation of Brazilian Music in America

by Troy Hoffman
By 1957, jazz music was fully stretching out and the bossa nova movement was one of the many impacts. American artists of all types had been expanding their knowledge of international cultures for quite some time, specifically Latin countries and the musical rhythms driving them--one of the earliest being Cuban culture, which began popularizing in the U.S. during the 1920s--fully transcending into all realms of American art by the 1950s. Music from Brazil was beginning to popularize as well, due ...
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