Tecno brega or technobrega (technotacky) is a form of music from northern Brazil, particularly Belém, Pará. Music of the genre is created primarily through remixing and reworking songs from popular music and music from the eighties.
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Tecno brega or technobrega (technotacky) is a form of music from northern Brazil, particularly Belém, Pará.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Brazil
Written in its own script on record as Tecnobrega.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited source
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Common Questions Answered on Record
What is tecno brega in plain words?
Tecno brega or technobrega (technotacky) is a form of music from northern Brazil, particularly Belém, Pará. In local script on record, it is written Tecnobrega.
Where is tecno brega practised or documented?
Sources on this page place tecno brega in Brazil.
What is the current condition of tecno brega today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
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Cite as: "tecno brega." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/tecno-brega, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Tecno brega or technobrega (technotacky) is a form of music from northern Brazil, particularly Belém, Pará. Music of the genre is created primarily through remixing and reworking songs from popular music and music from the eighties. While there is a large amount of famous music used in tecno brega, the majority of it is original material (80%). Several DJs and music producers from the tecno brega movement were featured in the peer-to-peer filesharing documentary Good Copy Bad Copy.
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tecno brega is genre of music from northern Brazil, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
The source record links this tradition to 5 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 1
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