Lambada
The fast, arching Brazilian dance craze of the late 1980s.
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Lambada
A Brazilian social dance and its companion music genre
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Carimbó and Caribbean Roots: Where Lambada Came From
Lambada grew from the Afro-Indigenous carimbó of Pará, electrified by Caribbean rhythms
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Lambada Basic and the Signature Dip
The foundational step and styling of the Brazilian partner dance, as transmitted through contemporary instruction
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Beto Barbosa: The King of Lambada
From Belém in the Amazon, the singer who made lambada a Brazilian sensation
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Etymology and naming
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Origins
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Carimbó and Caribbean Roots: Where Lambada Came From
Lambada grew from the Afro-Indigenous carimbó of Pará, electrified by Caribbean rhythms
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Pará and Carimbó: The Amazonian Foundations of Lambada
Afro-Indigenous Roots and Regional Synthesis in Northern Brazil
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The 1989 Global Lambada Craze
How a Brazilian partner dance became a worldwide 1989 craze
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Musical anatomy
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Technique
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Pioneers
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Beto Barbosa: The King of Lambada
From Belém in the Amazon, the singer who made lambada a Brazilian sensation
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Kaoma and "Chorando Se Foi"
The 1989 lambada single and its contested transatlantic lineage
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Márcia Ferreira: The Song Behind the Lambada
Her Portuguese version of "Chorando Se Foi" became the world's biggest lambada — and a landmark copyright case
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Cultural context
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The Lambada Craze and Its Decline
A global partner-dance fad of the turn of the 1990s and the conditions of its rapid eclipse
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Porto Seguro Lambada Scene
Lambada's documented origins, brief international spread, and descent into Brazilian Zouk
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The 1989 Lambada Craze
How a Pará partner dance and a French-Brazilian pop single produced a brief global vogue
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