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63 Cards in this Set
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morro
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poorer hillside section of the estacio de sa neighborhodd
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favela
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hills
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bateria
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the percussion ensemble that accompanies the samba school
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surdo
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bass drums
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cuica
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friction drum
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caixa
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snare drum
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tamborim
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small hand drum struck with stick
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agogo
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double bell
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pandeiro
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tambourine
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vialao
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six-string guitar with nylon strings
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cavaquinho
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small guitar used in samba
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samba enredo
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escola de samba's theme song for Carnival
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samba-cancao
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popular songs de-emphasizing percussion
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afoxe
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carnival groups from Bahia
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Deixa Falar
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first escola de samba formed in 1928
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Carmen Miranda
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was coined with bringing samba to hollywood
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Getulio Vargas (what he did for samba)
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officially recognized escolas de samba and samba composers
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Ile Aiye
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bloco afro formed in 1975; inspired by African movements for independence
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Olodum
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most famous bloco afro; formed in the 1980s and popularized samba-reggae style
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vialao gago
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stammering guitar technique
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Joao Gilberto
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introduced stammering guitar technique and rhythmic play with melody
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Who was the leader behind "fifty years in five"?
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President Juscelino Kubitschek
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Who was Zumbi?
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the leader of the Palmares quilombo in the 17th century; quilombos served as places of refuge and bases of resistance
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Mestre
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master performer
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Ladainha
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a solo sung by the most senior member present in capoeira music when in rodas (circles)
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Chula
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the call and response louvacao immediately following the ladainha
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Bahian corrido
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a short song with response
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Atabaque
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a tall, wooden Afro-Brazilian hand drum
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Sanfona
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piano accordion
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Gunga
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lowest pitched berimbau which executes firxed patterns called toques (part of capoeira)
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Medio
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part of the berimbau that plays counter rhythms to the gunga (part of capoeira)
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Viola
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the highest pitched part of berimbau which plays improvised variations (part of capoeira)
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Caboclo
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person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European or African ancestry
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Malicia
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cunning
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Ginga
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basic flowing, rocking step
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Zabumba
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bass drum used in forro
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Forro music
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genre label referring to up-tempo baiao and a family of rhythms; accordion-based social and popular dance music
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Tropicalia
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experimental popular music movement in 1967-1969; significance was how Brazilian popular musicians could absorb the most diverse international cultural elements with Brazilian culture and for them into something distinctively Brazilian
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Oswald de Andrade
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composed the Manifesto Antropofago (its argument was that Brazil's history of "cannibalizing" other cultures is its greatest strength, while playin gon the modernists' primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite)
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Cosmopolitanism
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being aware of and participating in global flows of music and ideas; a worldview connecting the local with the global; bossa nova, tropicalia
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Maracatu de nacao (maracatu de baque virado)
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This is associated with Afro-Brazilian religious centers in the city of Recife. It resembles the royal procession of an African nation, and the instrumental music that accompanies its singing music is dominated by the sound of powerful bass drums called alfaia, snare drums, and a two-toned metal playing a medium-slow, heavily syncopated beat
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Maracatu rural (maracatu de baque solto)
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This is practiced in the rural areas surrounding Recife. I resembles a colorful warlike procession and blends Afro-Brazilian and indigenous elements in its underlying belief system and costumes. The vocal music typically consists of composed and improvised verses by two master singers in friendly competition, accompanied by a small brass ensemble and a percussion group consisting of snare drums, metal bell, and cuica that plays a fast rhythm that might remind contemporary listeners of drum and bass
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Alfaia
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large bass drum
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"Ladainha: Rei Zumbi dos Palmares"
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about Zumbi the leader of the Palmares quilombo; capoeira music
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"Chula"
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second part of "Ladainha: Rei Zumbi dos Palmares"; capoeira music; resembles a call response, leader and chorus
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"Corridos" ("Santa Barbara")
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third part of "Ladainha: Rei Zumbi dos Palmares"; capoeira music; sequence of choral refrains, players enter the roda
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"Angola"
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capoeira music; berimba does a rich blend of pitched sounds
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"Catimbo"
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maracatu rural; Siba and Barachinha; religous themes
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"Forro em Monteiro"
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live performance, forro, percussion accompainment:zahumba part
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"O Outro Mundo de Xicao Xukuru"
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mangue movement; mundo livre S/A; addressed the assassination of Xicao
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"Pelo Telefono" (Youtube)
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first recorded samba (1917); carnival samba although its closer to a maxixe
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"Aquarela de Brasil" (Youtube)
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song by Gilberto; carnival samba
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"A Batucada dos Noisos Tantos" (Youtube)
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Grupo Fundo de Quintal, examples of a Pagode
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"Girl from Ipanema" (Youtube)
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Tom Tobim composer; bossa nova music; violao gago (guitar strumming); gilberto sings in this
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"Chega de Saudade" (Youtube)
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first bossa nova created in 1958; Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim
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"Baiao" (Youtube)
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Luis Gonzaga; baiao music
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"Asa Branca" (Youtube)
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1947, baiao, Luiz Gonzaga, button accordion, dresses up like a sertao
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"Domingo no Parque" (Youtube)
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Tropicalia, Gilberto Gil w/ Os Mutantes, black and white TV/RIO
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"Panis et Circenses" (Youtube)
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Tropicalia, perofrmed by Os Mutantes (1968)
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"Lindoneia" (Youtube)
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Beloso (lyrics), Tropicalia, performed by Nara Leao
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"E Proibido Proibir" (studio)
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tropicalia music, psychedelic rock, caetano veloso
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"Rios Pontese Overdrives"
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CSNZ, band of mangue beat movement, MTV video
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"Maracatu atomico"
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CSNZ version of song, mangue beat movement
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