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  2. Samba (Brazilian dance) - Wikipedia

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    Samba is a lively dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to samba music. The term "baby" originally referred to any of several Latin duet dances with origins from the Congo and Angola. Today Samba is the most prevalent dance form in Brazil, and reaches the height of its importance during the festival of Carnaval. [1]

  3. Música popular brasileira - Wikipedia

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    Música popular brasileira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmuzikɐ popuˈlaʁ bɾaziˈlejɾɐ], Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as jazz and rock.

  4. Music of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    There are also regional variations: coastal styles, such as vals (similar to Vals Peruano (Waltz)) and montubio music (from the coastal hill country). Indian music in Ecuador is determined in varying degrees by the influence of quichua culture. Within it are sanjuanitos (different from the mestizo sanjuanito), capishkas, danzantes and yaravis.

  5. Samba - Wikipedia

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    In another survey, carried out jointly between Kantar Ibope Media and Crowley Broadcast Analysis, the pagode corresponded to only 9% of the radio audience in Brazil in 2019, too far from the dominant sertanejo (Brazilian country music genre), whose slice represented about one third of the radio audience in the country. [456] Samba female ...

  6. Bossa nova - Wikipedia

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    Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.

  7. Samba band - Wikipedia

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    A Samba band or samba is a musical ensemble that plays samba music. Samba styled music originates from Brazil. Samba styled music originates from Brazil. The rhythm section of a samba band consisting of drums is known as a bateria .

  8. Samba-canção - Wikipedia

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    The name is somewhat arbitrary, adopted by the music industry, that is, publishers and record companies, and some composers. Like many popular songs of the world, Samba-canção (plural 'sambas-canções')'s principal theme is the love relationship, typically moaning for a lost love. Tempo is moderate or a little slower.

  9. Chamba people - Wikipedia

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    The Chamba people, also known as Samba, Tchamba, Tsamba, Daka and Chamba-Ndagan, are an ethnic group found in the Adamawa State of North-East Nigeria and neighboring parts of north Cameroon. [4] They speak two distantly related languages: Chamba Leko , of the Leko–Nimbari languages , and Chamba Daka , of the Dakoid languages , both of which ...