maracatu
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]maracatu (uncountable)
- A Brazilian performance genre involving parades and music.
- 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times[1]:
- Nation Beat, from exotic Brooklyn, uses the maracatu beat and rabeca fiddle of northeastern Brazil, and it has a Brazilian singer, Liliana Araújo.
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]maracatu m (uncountable)