Música Popular Brasileira

Similar topics in Freebase

• 

  Samba

  Samba ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in African and European roots. The word is derived from the Portugese verb sambar, meaning "to dance to rhythm." It is a worldwide recognized symbol of Brazil and the Carnival and is the national dance of Brazil....
• 

  Disco

  Disco is a genre of dance music that that had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While disco was a form of black commercial pop music and a craze among black gay men...
• 

  Tropicalismo

  Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s and encompassed theatre, poetry, and music, among other forms. Tropicália was influenced by poesia concreta (concrete poetry), a genre of Brazilian avant-garde poetry embodied in the works of Augusto de...

• Romance

  The term romance (Spanish: romance/romanza, Italian: romanza, German: Romanze, French: romance, Russian: романс, Portuguese: romance) has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also...

• Brazilian jazz

  Brazilian Jazz may refer to:

• Samba rock

  Samba rock is a genre of rock music. Created in the 1960s, the genre combines the sounds of soul, funk and Brazilian Samba. Jorge Ben Jor created the style with his famous album "Bidu/Silêncio no Brooklin". After this a great number of artists followed Ben's beat, including Banda Black Rio, Bebeto ...

• Comedy rock

  Comedy rock is a term used to describe rock music that is mixed with satire or other forms of comedy. This tradition can be traced back to the earliest days of rock and roll itself, the most notable early examples being Stan Freberg who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley and The Platters, and...

• Latin jazz

  Latin jazz is the general term given to this musical genre in the countries of Latin descent (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Romania, and countries of its influence). In America, the Latin Jazz combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin...

• Traditional pop music

  Traditional pop or Classic pop or Standards music denotes, in general, Western (and particularly American) popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the...