The Reco-Reco is a percussion instrument used in Brazilian music. It was introduced to Brazil by enslaved people coming from Bantu speaking areas of Central Africa. It consists of a cylindrical piece ...

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...