Glossary: Carnaval – a folk party with a yearly parade both in the streets with informal bands playing the little carnival samba marches, as well as the official parade made by the samba schools. As an avid fan, and dedicated musician myself, I hope this short article has, besides helped illustrate the styles’ differences, created a thirst in you, dear reader, to listen to the music and discover for yourself how wonderful these two cultural manifestations truly are. Both musical styles are, and have always been, a great representation of Brazilian culture.

For instance, while Bossa Nova was created by the Brazilian upper white middle class, and almost immediately accepted and consumed not only by national, but international audiences alike – throughout the US and Europe – Samba developed as a cultural manifestation of lower, black, African descendants classes, and faced discrimination until it was recognized as the art form it is currently considered. Many factors contributed to this phenomenon. Getting Ready to Samba in Brazil Despite this being a simplified approach towards defining Samba, these styles create a portrait of the genre through some of the samba types that we can still actively find nowadays. What resulted was an instrumentation infused with many forms of percussion – like the surdo, chocalho, repique, tamborim, pandeiro among others – as well as the guitar and the cavaquinho (a small type of guitar with 4 strings). Some are the children of those who made the music in the first place, while others simply have their own take on the sound, and this compilation does a fair, if not complete.

The music style’s origin comes from a mix of African culture, brought to the country by slaves when Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, and as such influenced by European musicality. The burgeoning new scene in Brazilian music that began in 2000 continues to grow, as a new generation reinterprets and redefines the classic ideas of samba and bossa nova. Samba Samba was born in Salvador, capital of Bahia, and later developed in Rio de Janeiro. Posted 4 years ago by B&B Music Lessons From the Masses to the Classes (written by Michel Nirenberg) Despite the term’s previous existence in Brazilians’ informal lexicon, the word “Samba” was officially used for the first time in 1917, in a 78rpm recording called “Pelo Telephone” (By the Telephone) by composer Donga.

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