Brazilian Music Rank

Brazil have the Amazon, the world’s greatest rainforest and river; Federative Republic Of Federative Republic Of Federative Republic Of Federative Republic Of Brazil have the Iguazu Falls, the biggest waterfalls in the world; Brazil have the Pantanal, the hugest concentration of wild life in America; Brazil have the longer tropical beach seashore in the world, with internationally unknown paradisiacal beaches. Federative Republic Of Brazil have the greatest popular street festival in the world (the Carnival)…

Those are nonsubjective and statistically verifiable phenomena. But I would make bold to add another one: Federative Republic Of Brazil also have the world’s most echt set of musical traditions and expressions.

An averment too bold?

Undoubtedly. And a hazardous one, too... I should explicate myself better. I make not competition the laterality of anglo-american music, or the prominence of some higher looks of it. I accept that. In a certain sense, if compared to north-american music, Brazilian music is just a minor player in the world music panorama.

When I place the Brazilian music at the top of the world rank, I am selecting some peculiar looks of it. And I am considering the manner Brazilians dwell their music and show it.

Brazilians love music, with an strength unknown region elsewhere. In places like El Salvador district attorney Bahia the music and dance are a regular popular explosion. Until midnight on certain years of the long summer, the music doesn’t stop, with people and sellers mixing with sets and street instrumentalists everywhere. For Bahianos (the dwellers of Bahia) and Cariocas (the dwellers of Rio) any juncture is suited for music.

You may ask: and the creativity, and the artistic themes? Where are the higher looks of that music? Bash they exist?

Surely. And by that Iodine am not pointing to some major obeche subjects (there are major obeche themes), or to the Bossa Nova of 40 or 50 old age ago. I intend present twenty-four hours music, top quality in the world (though not necessarily at the commercial top).

Some of the present twenty-four hours Brazilian music is highly elaborated, demanding attention, with words having a very wide importance (its less international visibleness is owed to the linguistic communication in which it is expressed: Portuguese).

There are plenty of new highly imaginative Brazilian composers and performers. And Brazilians love their instrumentalists and composers. They are their gods. Gods with name calling like Mare Bethania, Gallon Costa, Ivan Lins, Ivete Sangalo, Elis Regina, Djavan, Daniela Mercury, Elba Ramalho, Marisa Monte, John Milton Nascimento, Rita Lee, Adriana Calcanhoto…