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Any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival. quotations examples
Musicians from Recife, Olinda and rural Pernambuco have concocted rock laced with funk; reggae; the local beats of maracatú and frevo; old rural songs; and the beats, burbles and scratches of electronica.
2008 February 24, Jon Pareles, “Recalling Romance, Brazilian Rock Beats and an Age-Old Harp”, in New York Times