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Brazilian Gaucho Music
Brazilian gaucho music (in Portuguese ''música gaúcha brasileira'' or ''música nativista'') denotes the traditional music of Río Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina and Paraná (state), Paraná states, whose population has a strong ancestry of European countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany. The word ''gaucho'' refers to the countryside and farm people. History In the 19th century, in the north of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the tropeiros, men who led the cattle troops, often created music for fun, to sing while they stumbled, they were songs with simple lyrics, as the years, and the arrival of the accordion in Brazil, these songs gained their own dances, today they are gaúcho folkloric songs and dances, as there is no record of the composers of the songs and the creators of the dances. With the emergence of the Farroupilha Revolution, or also known as the Farrapos War, these dances ended up being forgotten for years, in the late nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |