Bossa Nova Isn’t Elevator Music, It’s “The Highest Flowering Of Brazilian Culture”

Caetano Veloso: “Bossa nova is a sacred music for many Brazilians. It’s political and nationalistic and poetic. … It was possibly the first popular music where the themes were existential. It’s part of what makes it high art. … It’s a form of high modernist art that somehow became one of the most popular musics on earth.”