''Kap Verd Band'' or ''Kab Verd Band'' ( Portuguese: ''Banda de Cabo Verde'', English: ''Cape Verdean Bands'') is a music history book published in 2006 by Cape Verdean journalist and investigator

Carlos Filipe Gonçalves Carlos Filipe Fernandes da Silva Gonçalves (born October 12, 1950) is a Capeverdean journalist and an investigator, ex-director of the Portuguese station Rádio Comercial. Carlos Gonçalves has made interviews, conversations and meetings and found ...

. It was published by the Institute of the National Historic Archives and has been distributed and marketed by the National Library Institute."Kap Verd Band" by Carlos Gonçalves
at Esquina do Tempo The book includes interviews, conversations, meetings and found written documents by different authors, mainly those from the late 20th century on

Cape Verdean music Cape Verde is known internationally for '' morna'', a form of folk music usually sung in the Cape Verdean Creole, accompanied by clarinet, violin, guitar and cavaquinho. ''Funaná'', ''Coladeira'', '' Batuque'' and '' Cabo love'' are other musical ...

. It included studies on all the Capeverdean music genres, notably

colá Colá (also in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Creoles of Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal, Boa Vista and Brava, ALUPEK, Santiago (Badiu), Maio and Fogo: ''Kolá'') is a musical genre of Music of Cape Verde, Cape Verdean music As a ...

, festa da bandeira, batuque,

tabanka Tabanka (Cape Verdean crioulo name of tabanca) is a musical genre of Cape Verdean music. As general music As general music, tabanka characterizes by having an ''allegro'', a binary compass, and traditionally being melodic only. In its tradit ...

, morna and a few more. He also gives a description on musical instruments (ex. cimboa and

ferrinho The ferrinho (in Cape Verdean Creole ferrinhu ) is a musical instrument, more precisely a scraped idiophone. It is made up by a metal bar (generally of iron) that is scraped by another metal object. The player holds the bar vertically, with its ...

) which formed a part of Capeverdean music, ensembles, voices, discography, birth of the editors and queen of its music. He wrote the edition with a large graphic quantity. The book has 250 pages widely illustrated with some dozens of photos, some historic and rare. Also the book includes some of the famous artists including Cesária Évora, Bana,

Codé di Dona Codé di Dona, nickname of Gregório Vaz, (July 10, 1940—January 5, 2010) was a Cape Verdean musician and composer. He was born in Chaminé near São Domingos and lived in the locality of São Francisco, in the same municipality he was born h ...

Dany Silva Dany Silva is a Cape Verdean singer, musician, composer and producer. Biography Dany Silva was born in the then colonial capital of Praia, he lives in Portugal since 1961. He started playing the violin in his father's island Boa Vista, Cape ...

Gil Semedo Gil Semedo Moreira (born October 25, 1974), better known by his stage name Gil Semedo, is a Cape Verdean recording artist, songwriter, businessman, and record producer. He rose to prominence in 1991 following the release of "Menina", the first si ...

and a few more.

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"Kap Verd Band" by Carlos Gonçalves
- Esquina do Tempo 2006 non-fiction books Cape Verdean literature Cape Verdean music {{music-book-stub

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