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.

In 2008 the Brazilian minister of defense has formulated the " Estratégia Nacional de Defesa " ( National Defense Strategy ), that claims to build a strong national industry and make strategic partnerships with allied nations to develop technology together.

The Brazilian Bombshells invaded the modeling industry due to the popularity of healthier looking models such as Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum of the late 1990s.

Emerging in the late 1990s, Gisele Bündchen became the first in a wave of Brazilian models to gain popularity in the industry and with the public.

While once based on the cultivar ' Brazos ', an old erect blackberry cultivar developed in Texas in 1959, the Mexican industry is now dominated by the Brazilian ' Tupi ' released in the 1990s.

The World Trade Organization decided Brazil ran an illegal subsidy program, Proex, benefiting Brazilian plane-maker Embraer from at least 1999-2000, and that Canada illegally subsidized its indigenous regional airliner industry.

Moreover, governmental policies toward investment were not always opposed to foreign capital: the Brazilian industrialization process was based on a tripod which involved governmental, private, and foreign capital, the first being directed to infrastructure and heavy industry, the second to manufacturing consumer goods, and the third, to the production of durable goods ( such as automobiles ).

Brazilian and Indian monazite dominated the industry before WWII, after which major mining activity transferred to South Africa and Bolivia.

This process, which was not limited to the regional market, was inserted in the Brazilian industry matrix through the chemical ( specially petrochemical ) and metallurgical segment.

Café com leite politics (, Coffee with milk ) was a term that referred to the domination of Brazilian politics under the Old Republic ( 1889-1930 ) by the landed gentries of São Paulo ( dominated by the coffee industry ) and Minas Gerais ( dominated by dairy interests ).

One of the factors pushing Brazil to the top of this list of destination countries is the extensive use of the Sport Fishing industry in the Brazilian Amazon as a front.

Even though the Brazilian sugar was reputed as being of high quality, the industry faced a crisis during the 17th and 18th centuries when the Dutch and the French started producing sugar in the Antilles, located much closer to Europe, causing the sugar prices to fall.

According Mexican Energy Minister Georgina Kessel, Mexico may seek to emulate Brazilian Oil rules that strengthened Petroleo Brasileiro SA as it considers regulation changes to revive the oil industry.

Then, in no open market could Brazilian industry compete within the comparative advantage system against the technologically superior Anglo-American economies.

The state of São Paulo, with its relatively large capital-base, large immigrant population from Southern and Eastern Europe, and wealth of natural resources, led the trend, eclipsing Rio de Janeiro as center of Brazilian industry.

The middle of the 18th century saw the decline of the tobacco industry and the rise of sugarcane, as well as the introduction of large numbers of African slaves. Brazilian exiles however, along with sugarcane introduced Samba to the island which featured a mixture of Latin music with African influences which soon developed into Soca-Samba which is indigenous to Barbados.

However, due to competition with many other Brazilian cities, which sometimes offer tax advantages for companies to locate manufacturing plants there, São Paulo's main economic activities have gradually left its industrial profile in favour of the services industry in the late 20th century.

Some critics of the procedure believe that Brazilian waxing can contribute to making an adult woman look underage, claiming that this may be one reason for its popularity in the pornographic industry.

In recent years, modern telecommunications, along with its supporting industry, has begun to expand into Goiânia, and many large Brazilian companies have established offices in the city.

An often polemic and controversial figure, hated and feared, Chateaubriand has also been nicknamed “ the Brazilian Citizen Kane ” and accused of unethical behavior, for allegedly blackmailing companies that did not place ads in his media vehicles, and for insulting entrepreneurs with lies ( such as industry owner Count Francesco Matarazzo ).

Due to the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, many people of Brazilian and other Latin American citizenship lost their jobs in factories, multi-national corporations and the services industry.

Macaé is generally considered to be the centre of the Brazilian offshore petroleum industry.

In the 1920s, the plant saw a brief and intense amount of agricultural research when the Intercontinental Rubber Company in California produced 1400 tons of rubber after leaf blight decimated the Brazilian rubber industry.

And, indeed, the dominance of transnationals over Brazilian seed production was expressd by the fact of the Brazilian hybrid seed industry being in the early 2000s already 82 % Monsanto-owned.