Traditional / folk music of Brazil
While I was investigating about Brazilian folk music, I came to this conclusion: "Give something to Brazilian, it doesn't matter what it is, happy or sad, nice or ugly, bad or good; They will make revolutionary changes on it and give back something amazing and irresistible to you". This is my conclusion about this music and culture. Whatever I say more is just wasting the time, skip to the bottom of this text and listen to the music without wasting your life with my poor words.
Haha, No, please stay with me more. I want to mention you one more thing. Miles Davis has a phrase about Joao Gilberto who is the original voice of bossa nova: "His voice is so ***ing incredible, I could listen all night to him singing the ***ing phone book."
Brazilian folk music consist of vast majority of styles. It's a country which European, African and North American music met and they keep some of them original as their folk music and change/mix some of them and make new extra-ordinary genres in the history of music. Like Bossa Nova. That's why we put some jazz and modern music here too, because they are part of the title in Brazil culture.
Examples of some Indigenous and folk music are Capoeira music, Maracatu, Afoxé, Repente. The first two are Afro-Brazilian music.
The popular / folk music of Brazil which is more famous are Choro and Samba. Choro is mixture of some European musical genres (polka, schottische, waltz, mazurka and habanera) which influenced by African rhythms, principally the lundu and the batuque. Originally it was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho. But later it was also played by mandolin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Usually it is a fast and happy music. Samba is Brazil's most classic popular music. It is like blues for American. Originally it was invented by port workers for expressing their culture, dignity and pride. During the time, samba has become an icon of Brazilian culture.
The most familiar Brazilian musical genre to the world is bossa nova. It is the refined of samba in the way Miles Davis refined Jazz. Joao Gilberto is one of the main voice of bossa nova and the one who has the most credit for inventing the genre.
Each type of these genres is a topic of long article. I will complete the text slowly, if you have some interesting information about these musics, please send it for me from Contact us page of the website and I will put it here.
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Traditional / folk songs for Brazil
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