world music
Brazil has the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest and river, Brazil, Iguassu Falls, the largest waterfalls in the world, Brazil has the Pantanal, The greatest concentration of wild life in America, Brazil has the longest tropical beach coastline in the world, with internationally unknown paradisiacal beaches. Brazil has the most popular street festival in the world (Carnival) …
These are objective and statistically verifiable phenomena. But I would venture a Other: Brazil has the world to add real variety of musical traditions and expressions.
A bold claim?
No doubt. And involve high risks, too … I explain myself better. I do not deny the dominance of Anglo-American music, or of the importance of a higher expression. I accept dass In a sense, when compared to North American music, Brazilian music, only a small player in the world music scene.
When I put the Brazilian Music at the top of the world rankings, I am selecting some specific expressions of them. And I am the way Brazilians live their music light and express.
Brazilians love the music, with an intensity found nowhere else. In places like Salvador da Bahia, music and dance are a regular popular explosion. Until midnight on certain The long summer days, do not stop the music anywhere with the people and vendors mingling with bands and street musicians. For cigar (the inhabitants of Bahia) and Cariocas (residents of Rio) music suitable for any occasion.
You may ask, and the creativity and artistic themes? Where are the higher Expression of that music? Are they there?
Sure. And that I'm not pointing out some important issues samba (there are great Samba) subjects, or the bossa nova of Forty or fifty years. I mean, to hear music, top quality in the world (though not necessarily on the commercial above).
Some of today's Brazilian Music is very developed and demands attention, with texts with a very wide meaning (the lower international visibility is on the language in which they expressed: Portuguese).
There are many new and highly imaginative Brazilian composers and performers. And Brazilians love their musicians and composers. They are their gods. Gods with names such as Maria Bethania, Gal Costa, Ivan Lins, Ivete Sangalo, Elis Regina, Djavan, Daniela Mercury, Elba Ramalho, Marisa Monte, Milton Nascimento, Rita Lee, Adriana Calcanhoto …
About the Author:
Eduardo Reisinho publishes Brazil-Travel-Guide.com
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Brazil Travel Guide
), a website where you can look for more information about travel in the Amazon rainforest, and other themes and travel information involving Brazil.
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