1956 – 1964
Bossa Nova
A hushed guitar and a cool harmony reinvent samba in the apartments of Rio's Zona Sul — and quietly cross into the jazz rooms of New York.
Enter this chapter1956——1972/BR · NYC · LON
Every music scene has a geography.
A source-backed atlas of music movements, drawn across maps and years. We follow Bossa Nova and Tropicália from Rio to New York, Salvador to São Paulo to London — and we show our work.
Every node, edge and date traces to a verified open source. · MUSICBRAINZ · WIKIDATA · CC0
Two movements, one continuous map
02 / Movimentos1967 – 1972
Tropicália
A Bahian generation answers that elegance with electric collage and pointed critique — until the dictatorship pushes its voices into London exile.
Enter this chapter04 / Método
An atlas you can audit
MusicScene is not a playlist and not an opinion. It is a scene-graph: people, works, releases, events and venues, each pinned to a place and a date, each connected by an influence, a collaboration, a migration or a reaction. Facts trace to MusicBrainz and Wikidata; the prose is our own. Nothing ships without a citation.
56sourced nodes
43mapped connections
100%open citations
05 / Lista
New movements, as we chart them
We are mapping one scene at a time. Leave an email and we will write once — when the next atlas opens.
06 / Sobre
About MusicScene
MusicScene is a research probe by Vin Busquet Studio: an experiment in telling music history as a cartography of evidence. We believe a movement is best understood as a shape on a map and a span on a timeline — a network of named people, real places and dated works. This demo charts the Brazilian 1956–1972, fully bilingual, fully cited. If a sourced historical atlas is something you'd teach with or learn from, we'd like to hear from you.