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The Brazilian port and former imperial capital that received both ends of this Journey's Atlantic mechanism: it was among the largest disembarkation points in the entire transatlantic…
-22.9, -43.2 · approximate · founded 1565; the musical period of interest is c. 1870–1940
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- A place in: Music Across Continents · 7 places
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- is transported to of The Middle Passage — Brazil received the largest share of disembarkations in the trade, and Rio de Janeiro was among its principal ports of arrival.
- is originates in of Samba — Samba crystallised in the Little Africa district around Praça Onze in the first years of the twentieth century, out of Bahian practice carried south by migration.
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