| Samba funk | |
|---|---|
 Tim Maia in 1972. | |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1960s, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Regional scenes | |
| Brazil | |
| Other topics | |
Samba funk is a musical subgenre that fuses Brazilian samba and American funk, created in the late 1960s by pianist Dom Salvador and the Brazilian band Grupo Abolição (which later gave rise to Banda Black Rio) and based on a blend of the binary measures of samba and the quaternary measures of funk, which had recently arrived on the Brazilian music market.[1] It has also been referred to as samba rock, samba soul and sambalanço (a portmanteau of samba and balanço, meaning swing or beat in Portuguese).[2]
Brazilian singers and bands such as Tim Maia, Jorge Ben and Banda Black Rio have also pioneered into the genre.[3]
- ^ Kassel 2018.
- ^ Nestrovski 2002, p. 142.
- ^ Medeiros 2006, p. 36.