Whats the difference between pagode, axe and funk?????

You are in Brazil, looking for a nice place to dance, drink and dance, but than you realize that Brazil is not just samba. In the corner you find a nice club with bossa nova, and in the next street a place playing samba and in the next night club is an Axe Music Night. And them you get lost cus you dont know where you should go. At the first time a not-brazilian person think the axe-funk-pagode-etc are all the same music. But you are wrong, gringo. And us, from sambaboys, gonna try to make you figure the difference between those music style's. Check this out.

AXE MUSIC

Axé music is a popular music genre originating in Salvador, Brazil approximately in 1986, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reagge. It also includes influences of Afro-Brazilian music such as frevo, forro and carixada. The word "axé" comes from a youruba religious greeting used in the candomble and umbanda religions that means "soul", "light", "spirit" or "good vibration".

The root of axé is in guitarra baiana, a 1950s guitar style that used eletric guitars to play the frevo from Pernambuco. This genre was purely instrumental, and remained so until the 1970s, when Morais Moreira (of the band Novos Baianos) went solo.
Axe music is a very happy and energetic music and when carnaval comes you listen this genre of music at every corner in Brazil.
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FUNK

Funk Carioca (english: Rio Funk ), favela funk and, elsewhere in the world, baile funk, is a type of dance music from Rio de Janeiro, derived from Miami-Bass^. "Baile funk", in Brazil, refers not to the music, but to the actual parties in which the music is played. Although originated in Rio, funk carioca has become increasingly popular amongst all classes in other parts of Brazil. In the whole country, funk carioca is most often simply known as funk, although it is very different musically from what funk means in most other places.

Most of funk music have a sexual connotation and is a very energetic kind of music made for dance all the time. The most famous funk music is called 'Rap das Armas' from Cidinho and Doca, that music was widely played in all night clubs around the world because the movie 'The elite squad'.

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PAGODE

Apparently, as time has gone by, the term "Pagode" has been degraded by many commercial groups who have played a version of the music full of clichés, and there is now a sense in which the term Pagode means very commercial pop, a negative term.
Original Pagode developed in the start of the 1980s, with the advent of Fundo de Quintal Band and the introduction of three new instruments in the classical samba formation. Pagode lyricism also represented a kind of evolution towards the tradition of malicious and ironic samba lyrics, with a much heavier use of slang and underground terms (gírias).
The banjo, whose introduction is mostly credited to Almir Guineto, is a banjo cavaquinho. The banjo has a different and louder sound than the cavaquinho; that loudness is an advantage in an acoustic roda de samba where there are lots of percussion instruments and people singing along. The banjo is one of the most characteristic instruments of the pagode sound.
The tan-tan, whose introduction is credited to Sereno, is a more dynamic type of surdo, used to keep the main beat of the samba, the `heart of the samba', and played with the hands. The repique de mao, whose introduction is credited to Ubirany, is a percussive instrument used specially for rhythmic turnarounds.
Check a pagode music.

Those are some of hundreads of brazilian music genre. But if you want to know better about another brazilian music genre, let us know.

E voce? O que acha sobre os diferentes estilos musicais brasileiros? Entre nos, brasileiros, rola um tipo de guerra musical, nao è verdade? PagodeirosXMetaleiros, FunkXBossa nova..enfim, pessoas que gostam de um certo tipo de musica costumam nao tolerar o diferente...e voce? Qual voce curte mais, porque??