Samba de breque

Samba de breque
Stylistic origins	Samba
Cultural origins	Early 1940s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Samba de breque is a subgenre of samba that emerged in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1930s and early 1940s. ^{[1] [2]}

The main characteristic of the subgenre is "breque", a Brazilian term for "brake". ^[3] In other words, it is a samba with sudden stops, usually of a humorous character, in which the singer makes spoken comments. ^{[2] [1]}

The singer Moreira da Silva consolidated himself as the great name of this style of samba. The first success of the subgenre was "Acertei no milhar", a samba by Wilson Batista and Geraldo Pereira. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Lopes & Simas 2015, p. 256.
2. Marcondes 1977, p. 684.
3. Portes 2014, p. 81.
4. Tatit 2000.
5. Portes 2014, p. 17.

Sources

• Marcondes, Marcos Antônio, ed. (1977). Enciclopédia da música brasileira - erudita, folclórica e popular (in Brazilian Portuguese). Vol. 2 (1ª ed.). São Paulo: Art Ed.
• Lopes, Nei; Simas, Luiz Antonio (2015). Dicionário da História Social do Samba (in Brazilian Portuguese) (2ª ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira.
• Portes, Isabelle dos Santos (2014). "O Último Malandro" em síncope: Imaginação social, malandro e cidadania nas canções de Moreira da Silva (1930-1945, 1951-1954) (Master) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
• Tatit, Luiz (2000-06-07). ""Kid Morengueira" gostava de atirar na bossa nova" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 2020-08-07.