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  2. Music of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The music of Brazil encompasses various regional musical styles influenced by European, American, African and Amerindian forms.Brazilian music developed some unique and original styles such as forró, repente, coco de roda, axé, sertanejo, samba, bossa nova, MPB, gaucho music, pagode, tropicália, choro, maracatu, embolada (coco de repente), frevo, brega, modinha and Brazilian versions of ...

  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. Category:Music of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazilian music history (3 C, 3 P) I. Brazilian music industry (4 C, 5 P) O. Portuguese-language operas (4 P) Music organisations based in Brazil (6 C, 9 P) S.

  5. Culture of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Social media in Brazil is the use of social networking applications in this South American nation. This is due to economic growth and the increasing availability of computers and smartphones. Brazil is the world's second-largest user of Twitter (at 41.2 million tweeters), and the largest market for YouTube outside the United States. [130]

  6. Choro - Wikipedia

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    Joaquim Callado (1848-1880), considered one of the creators of the choro genre. Choro (Portuguese pronunciation:, "cry" or "lament"), also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro.

  7. Samba - Wikipedia

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    In a decade characterized in the Brazilian music industry by the domination of international rock music and its Brazilian variant, Jovem Guarda, the traditional samba would have started to be seen as an expression of the greatest authenticity and purity of the genre, [349] which led to the creation of terms such as "samba autêntico ...

  8. List of best-selling music artists in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the best-selling music artists in Brazil, and the best-selling Brazilian artists worldwide. Most figures are provided by Pro-Música Brasil . Best-selling foreign music artists in Brazil

  9. Brazilian rock - Wikipedia

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    Brazilian popular music resulted from a gradual union of regional folk music and contemporary urban references. However, in 1967, the dichotomy was evident ("MPB" versus electric music) because it was a visible beginning of the electric fusion in acoustic Brazilian music.