Word: samba
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...practice, it can sound like straight samba music with an occasional solo twitter or two thrown in for jazz flavor, or like the meditative, moody farther reaches of chamber jazz. But when it is tastefully done, it has great appeal, with the long, sinewy lines of improvising jazzmen pinned dramatically against richly filigreed percussion backgrounds...
American jazz is everywhere; the party no longer even attempts to suppress it. "Moscow bands play a solid repertory of Western numbers. When the bands stop playing, they switch on tape recordings made from broadcasts of Music U.S.A., a Voice of America program." Latin American music-the samba, the mambo, the cha cha cha-is also popular, often under the guise of "native folk dances" of Cuba, Russia's Communist friend. Though Russia has its brawling young nihilists, the day of the stilyagi (zoot suiters) is gone; more often youths are dressed in conservative grey with pencil-thin trousers...
...young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor "Killer Joe" Piro began teaching it there. Killer Joe feels that the dance is too complex for definition, but an executive of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios describes it easily...
...Janeiro, Brazil's four-day pre-Lenten carnival is wild enough. Surging through the city's streets, jamming its clubs, they sing, samba and spray passers-by with ether, in a pleasure-madness that only exhaustion can satiate. But for Brazil's women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...
...gave them Christian cover names (Oxossi, the god of hunters, became St. George), then told their masters that they were worshiping the saints, but in their own way. This African subculture still claims 10 million followers for its religious dance rites, has permeated Brazilian culture with its music (the samba), superstitions, folkways...