''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. It was published by the Institute of the National Historic Archives and has been distributed and marketed by the

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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. It included studies on all the Capeverdean music genres, notably colá, festa da bandeira,

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, tabanka, 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 Cesária Évora GCIH (; 27 August 194117 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were often devoted to themes of love, homesickness, nos ...

, Bana, Codé di Dona, Dany Silva,

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 Music of Cape Verde {{music-book-stub

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