An African influence is evident in music and dance, and is moulding the way in which Portuguese is spoken, but is almost disappearing from the vocabulary.

* Blitz ( newspaper ), a Portuguese music newspaper

Later, waves of European groups ( Italians, Portuguese and Germans ) migrated to Venezuela in the 20th century, influencing many aspects of Venezuelan life, including its culture, language, food, and music.

He was a poet and a patron of literature and music, proclaiming Portuguese to be the language of the state.

There he taught music to the Portuguese princess Maria Magdalena Barbara.

Also of partly Portuguese origin are the romantic keroncong ballads sung to guitar music.

In January 2008, the Teatro São Luiz, in Lisbon, Portugal, premiered Evil Machines – a musical play, written by Jones ( based on his book ) and with original music by Portuguese composer Luis Tinoco.

The sheet music in Appendix 4 has the lyric in Chinese only without Portuguese translation even though both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages of Macau.

Having long been the poorest part of Spain, Extremadura is a largely rural region known for the Portuguese influence on its music.

The celebrations include traditional Portuguese music, dance and parades.

Sa Gomes, a Portuguese immigrant who owned a local music and phonograph equipment shop in Port of Spain, promoted the genre and gave financial support to the local artists.

The music is usually linked to the Portuguese word saudade which symbolizes the feeling of loss ( a permanent, irreparable loss and its consequent life lasting damage ).

The word is linked to the music genre itself and, although both meanings are approximately the same in the two languages, Portuguese speakers seldom utilize the word fado referring to destiny or fate.

This context modified fado ’ s relation with the Portuguese market, centred on popular music with an intervening character while simultaneously absorbing many of the musical forms created abroad.

In this movement names such as Adriano Correia de Oliveira and José Afonso ( Zeca Afonso ) had a leading role in the revolution taking place in popular Portuguese music.

* Kroncong-a similar music style found in Indonesia, brought by Portuguese traders

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composer Dinesh Subasinghe contributed a pivotal role for the betterment of Passion play music of Srilanka, by combining world music styles such as ( Gregorien chants, western classical music and Portuguese sounds ) with Srilankan folk pasun tunes.

* Videoclip ( Arabic, Croatian, Greek, German, Italian, Polish wideoklip, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian видеоклип ) — music video

With the arrival of Europeans, Brazilian culture began to take shape as a synthesis of native musical styles with Portuguese music and African music.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, strong economic growth, abundant natural resources and development of infrastruture, led to the arrival of even more Portuguese settlers.

Statistics from Portuguese administration in the 1960s stated that the racial composition of the inhabitants was 78 % of mestiços, 21 % of “ Africans ” ( i. e. blacks ) and 1 % of “ Europeans ” ( i. e. whites ).

The Portuguese Army used horse mounted cavalry with some success in the wars of independence in Angola and Mozambique in the 1960s and 1970s.

Probably the last use of real dragoons ( infantry on horseback ) in combat was made by the Portuguese Army in the war in Angola during the 1960s and early 1970s.

During the Portuguese Colonial War in the 1960s and the 1970s, the Portuguese Army created an experimental horse platoon, to combat the guerrillas in eastern Angola.

The 1960s brought about innovative thought to the French cuisine, especially because of the contribution of Portuguese immigrants that had come to the country fleeing the forced drafting to the Colonial Wars Portugal was fighting in Africa.

Thus, during the 1960s and early 1970s, Portuguese development plans promoting strong economic growth and effective socioeconomic policies, like those applied by the Portuguese in the other two theaters of war ( Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique ), were not possible.

As a result of immigration flows in the 1960s and 1980s, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are also spoken by a considerable proportion of the population.

It was as recent as the 1960s and 1970s that the Portuguese began to relinquish their colonies in Asia.

China-Mozambique relations date back to the 1960s, when China began to support the struggle of Mozambique's Marxist-oriented FRELIMO party against Portuguese colonialism.

Mozambique-Russia relations date back to the 1960s, when Russia began to support the struggle of Mozambique's Marxist-oriented FRELIMO party against Portuguese colonialism.

The 1960s and early 1970s saw the continued and persistent violating of Senegal's borders by the Portuguese military from Portuguese Guinea.

Unlike other European nations, the Portuguese regime did not leave its African colonies, or the overseas provinces, during the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1960s, various armed independence movements, most prominently led by communist-led parties who cooperated under the CONCP umbrella and pro US groups, became active in these areas, most notably in Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea.

It continued after the Indigenato system was abolished in the early 1960s after the Portuguese colony of Mozambique has been rebranded the Overseas Province of Mozambique in the 1950s.

The economy expanded rapidly during the 1950s and 1960s, attracting thousands of Portuguese settlers to the country.

The strong industrial and agricultural development that did occur throughout the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s was based on Portuguese development plans, and also included British and South African investment.

Since the 1960s, with the latest developments on commercial aviation, the highest ranked football teams of Mozambique and the other African overseas provinces of Portugal, started to compete in the Taça de Portugal ( the Portuguese Cup ).

Statistically, Portuguese Mozambique's whites were indeed wealthier and more skilled than the black indigenous majority, but the late 1950s, the 1960s and the early 1970s, were being testimony of a gradual change based in new socioeconomic developments and equalitarian policies regarding underprivileged rural black communities.

Unlike other European nations, the Portuguese regime did not leave its African colonies or the overseas provinces ( províncias ultramarinas ), during the 1950s and 1960s.

Recent events have helped keep Portuguese regional folk ( rancho folclórico ) traditions alive, most especially including the worldwide roots revival of the 1960s and 70s.

* Manuel Fernandes ( footballer born 1951 ), former Portuguese football forward during the late 70s and 80s, later a manager