Brazail

Brazil/ Brasil, the land of the most exotic people, and most of all exotic music. Brazil and Samba go together like toast and butter, its hard to visualise one without the other. Afro-Brazilian music is defined as the folks form which developed in Brazil in the result of African cultural fusion (Fonesca, 1993) . During the Slave trade, just like Cuba, Brazil has a numerous number of African culture, roots, belief and the art of music. Brazil is a big country so the spread of slavery and the number of slaves brought into the country. to recap if you would go back to the second entry post it will show you an approximate number of slaves that were sent to Brazil.


Since Brazil and Samba are like toast and butter, let's look at where Samba originally came from. The Samba origionally came from the Southwest African Coast, which are mainly Congolese and Angolans.
The Soul of African cultures is in Salvador da Bahia, where the genre Samba was born. According to Welsh-Asante 1996, the samba went through many transformation to what they declared the rhythems to be called Samba, which Welsh Asante in his book explained where the word Samba comes from in depth. 


Therefore Samba is the genre of music that is highly African influenced, but its not the only genre, Brazil consists of many musical rhythems and genres that maybe countless, but the following are the famous genres:

• Samba
• Bahian Samba (the heavy use of different drums)

This is one of the best example to be given because this is the same band association that were in Michael Jackson's video "they don't about us"

•  Bossa Nova (Is a fusion of Samba based with a twist of Jazz)

To conclude this entry, Brazil hold vast musical genres and heritages that are African influenced because of the slave trade, it is a good element out of a horrible historical event, and gave this generation the ability to enjoy and express our emotions with their music.

Reference

• Welsh-Asante, K. (1996). African Dance: An Artistic, Historical, and Philosophical Inquiry .