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Brazilian rock | |
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Stylistic origins | Rock, rock and roll, blues, Brazilian folk music |
Cultural origins | Brazil in the late 1950s; fusion genres from the late 1960s |
Derivative forms | Tropicália |
Subgenres | |
Brazilian thrash metal | |
Fusion genres | |
Samba rock, Forrocore , Mangue Beat, Rock Rural . | |
Regional scenes | |
Brasília (1980-1996) |
Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese. In the 1960s, it was known as iê-iê-iê,[1] the Portuguese transcription of the line "Yeah, yeah, yeah" from the Beatles song "She Loves You".[2]