Batala (music)
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 68 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5132-6804-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Batala is an international music group that plays a style of samba, called samba reggae drum music which originates in Salvador de Bahia in northeastern Brazil. It is perhaps surprising (or not) that Salvador, despite having the largest black population outside of Africa, it was not until 1974 that a black group was allowed to play at the Salvador Carnaval. The seminal Afro-Bloco Ile Aiye gatecrashed the Salvador Carnaval, they were not invited, they just joined in. Unlike previous attempts they were not savagely beaten by the police and Salvador carnaval would never be the same again. Soon after reggae with its message of black redemption and solidarity became popular in Bahia and in 1981, Neguinho do Samba Ile Aiye's musical director left to work the offbeat rhythms of reggae in to samba with his new group Olodum. This and the presence of Jimmy Cliff who was living and working in Salvador for several years in the early 80s were the...