Chris McGowan and Ricardo Pessanha, The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil (Temple University Press)

Ruy Castro, Chega de Saudade: A História e as Histórias da Bossa Nova (Companhia das Letras), also the English translation by Lysa Salsbury, Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music that Seduced the World (A Cappella)

Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia, Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music (Indiana University Press)

Charles A. Perrone, Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985 (University of Texas Press)

Bryan McCann, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (Duke University Press)

Charles A. Perrone and Christopher Dunn, Brazilian Popular Music & Globalization (Routledge)

Christopher Dunn, Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture (The University of North Carolina Press)

Almir Chediak, Songbook Series (Lumiar Editora)

John Storm Roberts, The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States (Original Music)

Caetano Veloso, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil (Alfred A. Knopf)

Gene Lees, Singers and the Song II (Oxford University Press)

Michael J. Budds, Jazz in the Sixties (University of Iowa Press)

Donald L. Maggin, Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz (Quill)

A História da Bossa Nova, Vol. 1–4 (CARAS Edição Especial, Nº 18–21, Ano 3, Junho de 1996)

Bossa Nova – História, Som e Imagem (Spala Editora Ltda 1996)

Leonard Feather, The Encyclopedia of Jazz (Da Capo)

Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century (Oxford University Press)

Márlon Catão (publisher), Bossa: Brazilian Jazz World Guide [magazine]

Brazzil [magazine and online] See www.brazzil.com

Agenda do Samba & Choro [online] See www.samba-choro.com.br

All Music Guides [books and online] See www.allmusic.com

Liner notes, artist websites, and personal interviews