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The batucada is a genre of music with percussion traditional of
Brazil whose rhythmic formulas make it a subgenre of samba. By extension, the term is used batucada in
France to designate a group of musicians practicing the genre. Batucada was born in
Rio de Janeiro. Members of a samba drums are called ritmistas, especially when integrated into a samba school. It must be distinguished from passistas, which designate the dancers of the school. Batucada was born of a mixture of three cultures:
African, Portuguese and
Indian, which gave Brazil a unique cultural identity, thanks to the contribution of former
African slaves.
Appeared in the early xx th century, originally from Batuque African (meaning beat in rhythm), batucada has continually evolved by first spreading among the lowest before reaching all layers of society. However, it is in Rio de Janeiro that his presence is the most important because of the number and value of the samba schools that compete in the carnival parades. But they are also found in bars, on beaches, at football matches and for many popular festivals. The instruments used to play this music are mainly percussion: the caixa de guerra, the tamborim the surdo the repinique the TAROL the cuica the pandeiro, the agogos the chocalho and reco-reco. One can also play batucada with his hands and feet. Batucada players are called batuqueiros.
We find in all the batucada percussion families: those that are hit (hand, stick, bat), those that are shaken, as they scraped and finally those that is rubbed. This is also why this set forms like an orchestra based percussion where great musicality untap. The origin of the batucada is in the cultures in
Africa where they have always formations drums for popular festivities. Are batucadas in the countries Africans and in countries whose cultures have roots in Africa. In our time the batucada has had its flowering in Brazil, where they form batucadas with more than 3,
000 drummers and dancers, so that the batucada Brazilian is the prototype of movement batucadas seen in
Europe.
In
Spain there are associations that try to represent this kind of performance and facilitate the training of musicians and groups, among which are:
Fortress School, escueladepercusion.com, Chicon Associacião
Brasileira de
São Paulo, Batucada Tumbata, Associacião Batucada do
Brasil, Associacião of Artists
Athenaeum Ritmic, Associacião Mininhos du Loe, Tropalotrop d'Integració Artistic
Association Troop the Trop, Kapdetum Batuka Cultural Association.
In Spain and
Chile is common that groups of batucada in demonstrations using music and the volume of the instruments in protest. The chanting is essentially a group of percussionists (between 5 and 35 members in the most common form) Afro-Brazilians who play various musical styles, as well as native of Brazil and the Brazilian samba reggae and others. The word batucada can be attributed to a person born in Brazil derived from the
Yoruba, the "Batuque" religion. This form of organization comes from people who are immersed in an environment where music is everywhere as a service to the gods. Unlike the ritual music, Batucada is not clearly linked to a religious tradition or culture, but rather a form of musical expression typical of the country, sometimes used to join the orchestra in songs with mythical and divine motives, as usually it happens in the tangle samba.
The Batucada is a substyle of samba and refers to
a style percussive Brazilian music and culture influenced by African, usually performed by a group rather than as individuals, is considered by some to be the epitome of the whole of percussion and is characterized by its rhythm repetitive and rapid.
Some researchers claim that the drumming is the profane part of Batuque religion and Candomblé, the act of drumming, others claim that the two words have the same meaning. It was accompanied by percussion instrument many coming from Africa and their religious rhythms of Candomblé, and many instruments were improvised from household items like dish, pan and knife to date used in the batteries of the samba schools, it was used instruments rope as ukulele and guitar, as well as other rattle and tambourine.
The drum is an upright, broad and deep bass instrument which produces the basses and ensures the rhythmic structure of drumming.
- published: 04 May 2016
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