Salvador de Bahia has long stood at the crossroads of some of the most powerful musical currents of the Atlantic world. As the first capital of colonial Brazil and one of the largest ports of the African diaspora, the city …
The term “Amazonian music” can be misleading if understood as a single style emerging from a single culture. The Amazon Basin spans multiple countries, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana and is home to hundreds of Indigenous …
If you’re curious about the roots of Brazilian instrumental music, Choro is an essential place to begin! When Brazilian music is mentioned, samba and bossa nova are often the first genres that come to mind. Yet long before both gained …
Guaraní music cannot be understood as a single genre. It is part of a broader cultural system shaped by language, cosmology, territory, and centuries of historical transformation across what is today Paraguay, southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and parts of Bolivia. …