Brazilian popular music

Brazilian popular music is music created and performed in Brazil for broad audiences, encompassing regional traditions, popular genres, and hybrid styles.

Samba: An Afro-Brazilian music and dance tradition shaped in Rio de Janeiro and spread nationwide. Its rhythms and social history anchor many national ideas of Brazilian popular music.
Pelo Telefone: A 1916 samba recording commonly cited as the first commercially released samba. Its release marks an early moment in samba’s entry into Brazil’s recording industry.
Dorival Caymmi: A Brazilian singer-songwriter known for songs rooted in Bahia and its coastal culture. His work brought Bahian imagery and musical language into national popular song.
MPB: A Brazilian popular-music category associated with post-bossa-nova songwriting and a broad range of styles. MPB became a major umbrella for artists combining Brazilian traditions with new influences.
Censorship in Brazil during the military dictatorship: State suppression of cultural expression under Brazil’s military regime from 1964 to 1985. Censorship shaped songwriting, performance, and the political meanings attached to popular music.
Choro: A Brazilian instrumental genre blending European dance forms with syncopated rhythms and virtuosic improvisation. Its instrumental language and musicianship shaped later urban popular styles.
Brazilian recording industry: The businesses and technologies that record, distribute, and sell music in Brazil. Its growth carried regional music to national audiences and shaped genre production.
João Gilberto: A Brazilian singer and guitarist whose restrained style helped define bossa nova. His guitar rhythm and quiet vocal delivery established bossa nova’s signature sound.
Jovem Guarda: A Brazilian youth-oriented pop and rock movement of the 1960s. Its guitar-driven sound offered a different model of modern popular music from Tropicália.
Brazilian military dictatorship: The authoritarian regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Its repression and cultural policies formed the political setting for much protest music.

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