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  Samba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samba developed as a distinctive kind of music at the beginning of the 20th century in Rio de Janeiro (then the capital of Brazil) under the strong influence of immigrant fl people from the Brazilian state of Bahia.
Samba is characterized by a rhythm section containing the main beat, usually surdo or tantan, the `heart of the samba', and its most important nucleus is usually regarded as cavaquinho, or cavaco, and pandeiro.
Jongo is the Rio de Janeiro equivalent to it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samba_(music)   (1536 words)

  
 MRP Music Group's Latin 101
The samba that evokes images of carnival and large samba schools — with their floats and hundreds of drummers on parade performing a song with a narrative, is known as samba de enredo.
But there are other samba styles such as the samba canção, a slower, softer, more sentimental samba; the samba do morro, an earthier, heavily percussive, neighborhood samba; and the samba reggae, which takes on the reggae backbeat.
(Brazil) A style of samba as well, which at carnival is an ally to the samba de enredo.
www.mrpmusicgroup.com /latin101.htm   (2046 words)

  
 Carnival in Brazil: Selected Sources
Views Carnival as an integrating aspect of Brazilian society, with the samba schools as the mediators between two extremes, the favela (slum) dwellers and the upperclass apartment residents, providing opportunities for social participation frequently denied the majority of the population.
Rio de Janeiro: Prefeitura, Secretaria Municipal de Governo, 1996.
Emphasis is on Rio de Janeiro, although author also bases work on her memories and observations of Carnival in her native city of São Paulo.
www.lib.utexas.edu /benson/bibnot/bn-88.html   (2805 words)

  
 Samba, samba cups, samba help
Samba, the SMB/CIFS file and print server, is an important piece of the puzzle..
Samba, along with technologies like WINE, are a kind of "missing link" technology that samba.
Samba is a port which allows a FreeBSD box to share file systems with a Microsoft.
www.internetserviceinfo.com /samba.html   (326 words)

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