Afro-Brazilian culture

Capoeira () is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality.

thumb|Statues of Orishas in the water at Dique do Tororó Park, Salvador, Bahia|Salvador, [[Bahia, Brazil]]

thumb|Woman characterized as a "baiana", costume derived from connections to the predominant African culture in Bahia. |272x272pxAxé () is a popular music genre that originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1980s, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reggae, and calypso. It also includes influences of Brazilian music such as frevo, forró and carixada. The word Axé comes from the Yoruba term àṣẹ, meaning "soul, light, spirit or good vibrations". Axé is present in the Candomblé religion, as "the imagined spiritual power and energy bestowed upon practitioners by the pantheo

Olodum is a bloco-afro from Salvador's carnival, in Bahia, Brazil. It was founded by the percussionist Neguinho do Samba. The musical group's album Pela Vida (meaning "For Life" in Portuguese) was nominated for Best Brazilian Roots/Regional Album at the 4th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2003.

Annual celebration on 20 November honouring the black community in Brazil

right|300px|thumb|Maracatu nação dancers The term maracatu denotes any of several performance genres found in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil. Main types of maracatu include maracatu nação (nation-style maracatu) and maracatu rural (rural-style maracatu).

museum in São Paulo, Brazil

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Brazilian musical group

music genre in Brasil

thumb|Presentation of the Group of Caxambu Michel Tannus in Porciúncula thumb|Jongo is a Brazilian dance of West African origin (c. 1822) thumb|right|Vovó Maria Joana Rezadeira talks about jongo in an interview for the "Art Program from A to Z", from TV Educativa. Image of Fundação Centro Brasileiro de TV Educativa. Jongo, also known as caxambu or tabu, is a dance and musical genre of black communities from southeast Brazil. It originated from the dances performed by slaves who worked at coffee plantations in the Paraíba Valley, between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and also at farms in some a

cultural museum in Salvador, Bahia

The term afoxé refers to a Carnival group originating from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, in the 1920s, and the music it plays deriving from the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. It came to indicate a musical rhythm, named ijexá derived from the ijexá nation within Candomblé. Cultural performances of the afoxés, typically at Brazilian Carnival, incorporate choreography, song, ritual language and ceremonies deriving from the Candomblé religion. In Brazil, afoxé is generally performed by blocos, afros-groups of mostly black or mulatto musicians who are familiar with African Brazilian music. Afoxés

afro-Brazilian cultural aspects

public university in Brazil

church in Salvador, Brazil

Pajubá (), or Bajubá, is a Brazilian cryptolect which inserts numerous words and expressions from West African languages into the Portuguese language. It is spoken by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions, such as Candomblé and Umbanda, and by the Brazilian LGBT community. Its source languages include Umbundu, Kimbundo, Kikongo, Egbá, Ewe, Fon and Yoruba. It also includes words borrowed from Spanish, French, and English, as well as words of Portuguese origin with altered meanings.

Brazilian university teacher and writer (1941-2015)

Brazilian street dance style