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  2. Samba - Wikipedia

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    These were the cases of Samba de Gafieira, a dance style developed in the ballroom dance of suburban clubs in Rio de Janeiro frequented by people with low purchasing power throughout the 1940s and 1950s and which also became a fad among upper-middle-class people in the 1960s, [338] [339] and the samba rock, a dance style born in the São Paulo ...

  3. Afro-Brazilian music - Wikipedia

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    The rodas are always lively and full of high spirits and in them, the women show all their sensuality in a graceful way. Samba de roda usually starts after the capoeira rodas have finished. [16] Banguela de Regional - This is a beat created by Mestre Bimba to mimic the "Capoeira Angola" style. These types of performances are over much slower ...

  4. Samba (Brazilian dance) - Wikipedia

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    Samba is a lively dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to samba music. The term "baby" originally referred to any of several Latin duet dances with origins from the Congo and Angola. Today Samba is the most prevalent dance form in Brazil, and reaches the height of its importance during the festival of Carnaval. [1]

  5. Folk dances of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    Charuri: A folk dance performed using metal pots in circle, this folk dance is performed in thar. Muhana Dance: A folk dance performed by Mohana fishermen and fisherwomen community of Sindh. Asimori: This is the folk dance of young girls in which two girls grab each other's hands and move in circles. [20]

  6. Languages of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The script is used in Pakistan today, albeit unlike most other native languages of Pakistan, the Naskh style is more common for Sindhi writing than the Nasta'liq style. It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Urdu with digraphs and eighteen new letters ( ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ ) for sounds particular to ...

  7. Bossa nova - Wikipedia

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    Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.

  8. Samba (ballroom dance) - Wikipedia

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    The ballroom samba is a partner dance. The ballroom samba is danced to music in 2 4 or 4 4 time. For dance competitions and examinations, the recommended tempo is 48-56 bars per minute. It uses several different rhythmic patterns in its figures, with cross-rhythms being a common feature. Thus, for three-step patterns, common step values (in ...

  9. Category:Dances of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    4 languages. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ... Sindhi dance (1 P) Pages in category "Dances of Pakistan" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.