Season 3, Episode 9

Bossa nova is everywhere –– from a dance craze in the ’60s to elevator music today — but it’s also from somewhere. Kaleb Goldschmitt studies how bossa nova moved from a specific tradition grounded in Brazilian culture to an international phenomenon, and what that means for how we understand jazz history. A conversation about all that and more, including how queer and trans musicians and scholars are navigating post-Bolsonaro Brazil.

Kaleb Goldschmitt is Associate Professor of Music at Wellesley College

If you’re interested in learning more about Professor Goldschmitt’s scholarship, check out:

• The book Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries
• The article “Anitta’s Girl From Rio, Digital Fatigue, and Stereotype,” in Twentieth-Century Music
• The article “The Long History of the 2017 Spotify ‘Fake Music’ Scandal,” in American Music
• The essay  “From Miami to Hong Kong: Sounding Transnational Queerness and Translation in Moonlight” from the book In the Face of Adversity: Translating Difference and Dissent

Sound Expertise is hosted by Will Robin (@seatedovation), and produced by D. Edward Davis (@warmsilence). Please subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and/or Spotify. Questions or comments? Email soundexpertise00 @ gmail

A written transcript of this episode is available here; thanks to Andrew Dell’Antonio for volunteering to prepare transcripts for the show!