1) African dance 2) Ritual dance
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[game] Batuque was a Brazilian game played in Bahia in the early part of the twentieth century by African slaves which were brought to Brazil but now extinct. A similar game, pernada, was popular in Rio de Janeiro about the same time. Players stand in a circle; one player stands in the center in a defensive position, and another moves aroun...
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[music] The batuku or batuk (in Portuguese: batuque) is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. == As a music genre == As a music genre, the batuku is characterized by having an andante tempo, a 6/8 or 3/4 measure and traditionally it is just melodic, i.e., it is just sung, it has no polyphonic accompaniment. When compared with the other m...
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(from the article `samba`) In Brazil, away from the ballrooms, an older, very African type of samba is also danced. Sometimes called batuque, it is a kind of group dance, done ...
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