Rio 2: Samba Strikes Back

[APWW #644] [Originally aired 2012] Our second Hip Deep samba show picks up where we left off the story in the 1960s, tracing the rhythm as it transforms and re-appears throughout the many popular music forms that developed in Rio in the later 20th century. Scholar Frederick Moehn, author of a new book titled Contemporary Carioca, shows us how samba's shadow re-appears in the youth music of MPB-stars Pedro Luis and Fernanda Abreu, and how a samba revival led by young artists in the Lapa neighborhood revitalizes Rio’s urban core. Arriving in the 21st century, we see how samba’s footprint continues to reverberate in Rio today, in the form of the electronic tamborizao beat supporting baile funk recordings, and in the futuristic pandeiros of young percussionists like Marcos Suzano.