Samba Reggae

Samba Reggae is a music genre from Brazil.It has a blend from samba and Jamaican Reggae as typified by Bob Marley.

 Bahia's population has a large proportion of dark-skinned Brazilians, these were protests of Arfican Slaves , who were brought to Brazil by the Portuguese in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Afro- brazilians had a big role in the early development of Samba. The results show that Samba was brought back to Bahia from Rio.

Musical Characteristics :

Samba reggae is based from 90 to 120 beats per minute. Samba is much more straighter, slower and less swung than Rio Samba.


Samba-reggae is influenced from a style African dance this originated from Afro - Brazilian
 and candomble dance moves. In a social setting, samba-reggae dances tend to be done in a follow-the-leader fashion, with a few skilled dancers initiating moves in a line in front of the crowd.

 In addition, samba-reggae drummers often dance while they drum. The third- and fourth-surdos do short choreographies, using their mallets to emphasize arm moves. Most dramatically, the fundos (first and second surdos) frequently take center stage to do elaborate, showy mallet lifts and throws, and tossing their huge drums high overhead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVKsuzi-1lM
In this Video it shows exactly what samba - reggae is and it is easy to spot which movements are showing Samba and which ones show Reggae dance. In this Video it also shows dance techniques that Rosario has taught us in the past 2 weeks.

Personal Opinion;

Samba Reggae I had never heard of before, and was looking forward to learning this Dance style, due to already learning all the different street styles in her class. I found the class very tiring, you need to have a very high stamina for this dance, to the amount of beats per minute. Excellent Hip control is really important due to alot of the movement requires you to move your hips fast and efficent, with a good level of control. I feel I have learnt alot of techniques already and I have found while researching into universitys, that at ' Lipa ' you study. samba reggae, I am applying for this university and therefore for future reference if I get accepted into this university then I will already know the historical context of this and experience on this dance style.