Barrios composed many works and brought into the mainstream the characteristics of Latin American music, as did the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Capoeira (; ) is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance and music.

Its importance as Brazil's national music transcends region, however ; samba schools, samba musicians and carnival organizations centered around the performance of samba exist in every region of the country and, while regional musics prevail in other regions ( for instance, in Southern Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and all of the Brazilian countryside, Sertanejo, or Brazilian country music, is the most popular style ).

In the middle of the 19th century, the word samba defined different types of music made by African slaves when conducted by different types of Batuque, but it assumed its own characteristics in each Brazilian state, not only by the diversity of tribes for slaves, but also the peculiarity of each region in which they were settlers.

With the support of the Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas, the samba won status as the " official music " of Brazil.

A movement was born in the southern area of Rio de Janeiro, strongly influenced by jazz, marking the history of samba and Brazilian popular music in the 1950s.

During the 1960s, some samba groups appeared and were formed by previous experiences with the world of samba and songs recorded by great names of Brazilian music.

Category: Brazilian styles of music

* Brazilian Tango, also called maxixe, a music / dance originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868.

Willie Colón introduced the cuatro, a rural Puerto Rican plucked string instrument, as well as some songs with jazz, rock, and Panamanian and Brazilian music influences.

Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin ( born February 7, 1972 ), known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music.

* Yemaja in Brazilian music

In Bahia, Roy tried unsuccessfully to enter in the Brazilian music scene, when he formed a band of axé and Caribbean music.

" Funk, jazz, and Brazilian music were inspirations, and the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich can be found on 1999's Cobra and Phases Group .... Several critics have commented that the band's later work, like Instant 0 in the Universe ( 2003 ) and Margerine Eclipse ( 2004 ), sound similar to their guitar-driven earlier style.

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

In the Brazilian music style Forró it used together with the zabumba ( a larger drum ) and an accordion.

The instrument is a fixture in Forró Pé-de-Serra, and in Forró Universitário, a Brazilian music style that is today part of popular music.

She is a great admirer of Brazilian music, and in addition to a summer house in Bahia and another in the Jardim Botanico in Rio de Janeiro Dionne performs on a somewhat regular basis alongside renowned artists such as Ivan Lins, Simone, Jorge Ben Jor, among others.

Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and contributor to many other Brazilian and international albums.

This was the origin of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament ( later renamed UFC 1: The Beginning ) in the U. S. inspired by the Brazilian Vale tudo tradition and along with other minimal rule competitions, most notably those from Japan such as Shooto and Pancrase, have evolved into the combat sport of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ).

Beginning in 1962, the Brazilian company, Alpargatas, marketed a version of flip-flops known as Havaianas.

A Brazilian press report noted that Gaynor and Martin briefly lived with their respective husbands in the state of Goiás in the 1950s and 1960s.

Carmen Miranda, GCIH (, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955 ) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

ISI gained a theoretical foundation only in the 1950s, when Argentine economist and UNECLAC head Raúl Prebisch was a visible proponent of the idea, as well as Brazilian economist Celso Furtado.

As Gil describes it, tropicália ( or Tropicalismo ) was a conflation of musical and cultural developments that had occurred in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s — primarily bossa nova and the Jovem Guarda ( Young Wave ) collective — with rock and roll music from the United States and Europe, a movement deemed threatening by the Brazilian government of the time.

Samba has become the best known form of Brazilian music worldwide, especially because of the country's carnival, although bossa nova, which had Antônio Carlos Jobim as one of its most acclaimed composers and performers, have received much attention abroad since the 1950s, when the song " Desafinado ", interpreted by João Gilberto, was first released.

By the 1950s and 1960s it was replaced by samba and Bossa Nova and other styles of Brazilian popular music, but was still alive in amateur circles called " rodas de choro " ( informal choro gatherings in residences and botecos ).

Since the 1950s Paraná is one of Brazilian agriculture powerhouses.

Bossa nova is a well-known style of Brazilian music developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s.

In his book Bossa Nova, Brazilian author Ruy Castro asserts that " bossa " was already in use in the 1950s by musicians as a word to characterize someone's knack for playing or singing idiosyncratically.

His depiction of the sexual customs of his land was scandalous to much of 1950s Brazilian society and for several years Amado could not even enter Ilhéus, where the novel was set, due to threats received for the alleged offense to the morality of the city's women.

Since the 1950s, Brazilian berimbaus have been painted in bright colors, following local Bahian / Brazilian taste ; today, most makers follow the tourist consumer's quest for ( pretended ) authenticity, and use clear varnish and discreet decoration.

In 1981, Lucélia posed naked for Playboy again, in order to promote the film Luz del Fuego, which tells the story of the eponymous ballet dancer which shocked the Brazilian society of the early 1950s by founding the a naturist political party and creating the first clothes-free area in Brazil at an island in Baía de Guanabara.

The Brazilian T1s were not identical to the last German models ( the T1. 5 was locally produced in Brazil using the 1950s and 1960s-era stamping dies to cut down on retooling, alongside the Beetle / Fusca, where the pre-1965 body style was retained ), though they sported some characteristic features of the T1a, such as the cargo doors and five-stud PCD rims.

During the 1950s, he was to continue serving at the Brazilian consular service in various capacities, in Paris as well as in Rome ; in the Italian capital, he used to participate in lively musical meetings in the home of the historian Sergio Buarque de Holanda, who was then teaching in Italy as visiting scholar.

While the initial developments leading to the 4 – 2 – 4 were devised by Márton Bukovi, the credit for creating the 4 – 2 – 4 lies with two different people: Flávio Costa, the Brazilian national coach in the early 1950s, as well as another Hungarian Béla Guttman.

*, a class of six destroyers built for the Brazilian Navy and commissioned in the early 1950s

Since the late 1950s it has taken part in some United Nations peacekeeping missions as for example: in Suez 1956-67, East Timor 1999-2004, Angola 1995-1997 and Haiti since 2004, being the latest, the most recent outside intervention in that nation, as well as the longest length operation in the history of Brazilian military outside the country.

Some of his compositions were recorded and performed by Brazilian crooner Dick Farney in the 1950s.

It was through Farney that Bonfá was introduced to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the leading songwriting team behind the worldwide explosion of Brazilian jazz / pop music in the late 1950s and 1960s.

In the 1950s, it was not yet clear whether Pico da Neblina was in Brazilian or Venezuelan territory, and its precise elevation was not yet known.

Two writers from that " school " that have published after the 1950s are without a doubt already inside the canon of Brazilian literature: Clarice Lispector, whose existentialist novels and short stories are filled with stream-of-consciousness and epiphanies, and João Guimarães Rosa, whose experimental language has changed the face of Brazilian literature forever.