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Huey Morgan visits Brazil and meets musicians across the country, revealing an astonishingly diverse and political music scene.

91热爆 Radio 6 Music DJ Huey Morgan begins his Latin music adventure in Rio de Janeiro with a visit to Mangueira Samba School as they prepare for carnival. It is an important time. Joining rehearsals, Huey learns that the country鈥檚 government has come out against carnival鈥檚 hedonistic atmosphere. This samba group are just one of many planning a protest, and Huey realises that the revolutionary spirit isn鈥檛 just in Brazilian music, it is out on the streets.

Huey then hits the beach but discovers that Brazilian music in the 1960s wasn鈥檛 confined to the slick bossa nova swing of the Girl from Ipanema. Released in 1964, this song provided the soundtrack for cocktail parties around the world, but in Brazil that same year a military dictatorship had taken control of the country and civil unrest was brewing.

Huey meets up with Gilberto Gil, who pioneered a new, politically conscious sound to push back against the authoritarian government. Fusing bossa nova with psychedelic rock, avant-garde musique concrete, samba, funk and soul, 罢谤辞辫颈肠谩濒颈补 was so radical, and its social implications so politically profound, that Gil and fellow musician Caetano Veloso were arrested, imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969. 罢谤辞辫颈肠谩濒颈补 burned brightly for only a few short years, but its impact still resonates today.

Landing in Salvador, Huey is straight into the heat and the chaos of Brazil in the run-up to carnival. Everywhere you turn there are Afro blocs rehearsing, enormous drum ensembles beating out samba rhythms. Salvador is the ancient capital of Brazil, and it was here that millions of slaves were shipped to from Africa by the Portuguese conquistadors - more than anywhere else in the Americas. Salvador is said to be the largest African city outside of Africa, and the revolutionary sound of Brazil has its foundations here. These Afro blocs are more than just music ensembles - they also play a crucial political role in the communities that host them. Huey meets with Carlinhos Brown, percussionist and Salvador native, to experience the rhythms of an Afro bloc up close and to talk about how Afro-positive music has shaped the sound of Brazil. Huey also joins BaianaSystem to learn the secrets of the Bahian guitar - a revolutionary electric instrument invented in Salvador in the 1940s and performed on floats called trios electricos that traverse the city during carnival.

Leaving Salvador, Huey heads to S茫o Paulo, the centre of the Brazilian music scene today, to meet up with his good friend Supla. Taking a tour of the punk and metal scene, Huey discovers that Brazil is still using music to protest against the authoritarian government currently in power and heads to the studio to meet Karol Conka, a rapper and outspoken feminist who is making party anthems with a purpose.

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Music Played

  • Joe Cuba

    Bang Bang

  • Baden Powell

    Canto De Ossanha

  • Cartola

    Alvorada

  • Adoniran Barbosa

    Samba Do Arnesto

  • Cidinho & Doca

    Rap Da Felicidade

  • Cartola

    Verde Que Te Quero Rosa

  • S茅rgio Mendes & Brasil '66

    Mas Que Nada

  • Jo茫o Gilberto

    O Pato (The Duck)

  • S茅rgio Mendes

    Mas Que Nada (feat. Black Eyed Peas)

  • Joyce

    Joya

  • Ant么nio Carlos Jobim

    Agua de Beber

  • Vinicius de Moraes

    Garota De Ipanema

  • Joyce

    Me Disseram

  • Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim

    The Girl From Ipanema

  • Gil and Capinam

    Miserere Nobis

  • Caetano Veloso

    罢谤辞辫颈肠谩濒颈补

  • Os Mutantes

    Ando Meio Desligado

  • Os Mutantes

    Magica

  • Os Mutantes

    Baby

  • Os Mutantes

    Bat Macumba

  • Os Mutantes

    Adeus Maria Fulo

  • Os Mutantes

    A Minha Menina

  • Carlinhos Brown

    Garoa

  • S茅rgio Mendes

    Magalenha

  • Karol Conk谩

    Mundo Loco

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Huey Morgan
Series Producer Clare Tavernor
Executive Producer Sam Anthony
Executive Producer Lisa Fairbank
Executive Producer Julie Heathcote
Editor Lawrence Huck
Production Company Factory Films

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