Lusophone music

Lusophone music

Lusophone music refers to the music sung in Portuguese or in its many dialects and creoles.

Portugal and its former colonies are linked musicallyFact|date=April 2008 by the shared influence of fado, a bluesy form of music derived from itinerants in Lisbon. In varying forms, the genre has dominated Portuguese music since the early 20th century, and has also spreadFact|date=April 2008 to its former colonies, especially Brazil, the African (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe), as well as the former Asian colonies.

Of all the Lusophone countries, the one with the most internationally renowned popular music is probably Brazil. One of the largest countries in the world, Brazil's mix of diverse African and indigenous styles with fado and other Portuguese traditions has produced an eclectic mix of styles, most famously including bossa nova, as well as samba, choro and lambada. Portuguese fado has had some success internationally, as has Cape Verdean morna. Mozambique boasts popular timbila and marrabenta music, and Guinea-Bissau's gumbe scene once thrived; Angolan semba accentuates the later crosscultural linking between the Lusophone countries -- it is related to Brazilian samba, but the origins of both are murky and unclear.In Asia, the influence is surprisingly stronger in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and East Timor. Both Malacca (with the joget, branyo, farapera and mata-kantiga) and Sri Lanka (with the kapirinya (cafrinha), baila and chikoti) carry traditional music styles and instruments of obvious strong portuguese influence. Another example of the lusophone musical influence in the world is the ukulele, which was brought to Hawaii by the Portuguese.


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