Levinson focuses on samba music, with an emphasis on the history and traditions behind its rise in Latin America. Levinson explains how samba started in a Brazilian favela called Estacio in the ...

carnaval is celebrated all over Brazil, usually in February. In terms of the music, samba involves a syncopation which creates a feeling of suspension, and this, as described by American cultural ...

There are many types of samba, but all share a defining characteristic—a syncopated rhythm that stems from candomble, the prayer music used in Afro-Brazilian religious practices. This particular ...

What started as informal backyard drum sessions bloomed into a musical village of percussionists. Miamibloco, a samba ...

samba-de-roda, and forró, as well as more contemporary Afro-Bahian pop music. With a mix of Brazilian musical instruments and Portuguese-language singing, the ensemble performs a repertoire comprising ...

Blending samba with Brazil’s expanding casino industry introduces both potential and tension. Samba is more than ...

As Brazilian influence slowly seeped into the American mind, musicians began gradually experimenting with bossa nova and samba rhythms, but it wasn't until after the initiation of the Mutual and ...

and now we get footage of another one of his Brazilian musical pursuits. The above video finds Ye, tambourine in hand, jamming out and learning a thing or two about Samba music. We’ll see if his ...