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Music of Brazil

The music of Brazil is characterized by two basic historical and cultural elements, namely the African (Congo, Angola) and the European (Portuguese) and their fusion. Types of neo-African music contained in Brazilian cult rituals such as candomble are examples of such mixing. Aside the music from the native populations mostly dislocated in the Amazon basin, Brazil offers regional styles such as the Northeastern, which in turn features important sub genres like the forro or the martial dance of Angolan descent known as capoeira. Brazil, however, is mostly known for the samba and the bossa nova, two genres that have crossed over to the US during the 1960s. The samba is originally a street dance coming from the dramatic hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro, the favelas. The samba continues to be a dance although it has become a self-contained musical genre counting thousands of compositions, the so called samba cancao, or song samba. The samba is particularly celebrated each year all over Bra...

Posted by: Novelett Roberts

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