NEW YORK (AP) – The World Cup is over but the Brazilian party will go on—in New York City. Over nine days beginning July 18, nearly 20 acts representing a cross section of Brazilian popular music will ...

A total of nine samba musical instruments, including the pandeiro (a type of hand frame drum), tam-tam (a percussion instrument, often referred to as a gong), cuíca (a type of friction drum), and ...

Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

In the shuffling rhythms of samba, in its defiance and energy and lust for life, lies the soul of Rio de Janeiro. Samba is heard everywhere across the city, from the terraces of the Maracanã football ...

A song can change everything; it can trigger a movement or a revolution. Or it can become symbolic because of the unusual content of its lyrics. This is what happened in 1970, when composer Candeia ...

On a Friday evening in late July, a tropical downpour soaked Rio de Janeiro. It was not enough to deter the small crowd of revelers as they gathered around the entrance of Beco do Rato ("rat's alley") ...