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Cordel Do Fogo Encantado
Cordel do Fogo Encantado is a Brazilian band from Arcoverde who mix different Brazilian musical genres, such as samba de côco, toré indígena, embolada, and reisado, with pop-rock melodies. The band derives its name from cordel literature, cordel, a type of handmade illustrated pamphlet literature made by woodcut artists in northeastern Brazil. Cordel do Fogo Encantado is associated with Pernambuco's Mangue Beat, a musical movement that is repopularizing traditional northeastern Brazilian folkloric musical genres by mixing them with rock and funk music. Their album ''Viagem ao Coração do Sol'' was ranked as the 36th best Brazilian album of 2018 by the Brazilian edition of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine and among the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2018 by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte, São Paulo Association of Art Critics. Discography * Cordel do Fogo Encantado (2001) * O Palhaço do Circo Sem Futuro (2003) * Transfiguração (2006) * Viagem ao Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcoverde
Arcoverde (''Green Bow'') is a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil. It is located in the mesoregion of '' Sertão Pernambucano'' . Arcoverde has a total area of 353.4 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 74,822 inhabitants in 2020 according with IBGE. Geography Arcoverde is located in the Sertao of Pernambuco state. The municipality has the following data: * Boundaries - Paraíba (N); Buíque and Pedra (S), Pesqueira (E), Sertânia Sertânia is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2020, according to the IBGE, was 36,050. Its total area is 2421.51 km². Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - Sertão Pernambucano * Boundaries - Iguaraci and ... (W) * Area - 353.4 km2 * Elevation - 663 m * Hydrography - Ipanema, Ipojuca and Moxotó rivers * Vegetation - Caatinga. * Climate - Semi desertic, ( Sertao) - hot and dry * Annual average temperature - 22.4 c * Main road - BR 232 * Distance to Recife - 254 km Econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samba
Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Having its roots in Brazilian folk traditions, especially those linked to the primitive rural samba of the colonial and imperial periods, it is considered one of the most important cultural phenomena in Brazil and one of the country's symbols. Present in the Portuguese language at least since the 19th century, the word "samba" was originally used to designate a "popular dance". Over time, its meaning has been extended to a "batuque-like circle dance", a dance style, and also to a "music genre". This process of establishing itself as a musical genre began in the 1910s and it had its inaugural landmark in the song " Pelo Telefone", launched in 1917. Despite being identified by its creators, the public, and the Brazilian music industry as "samba", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
