Over time, its meaning has been extended to a "batuque-like circle dance", a dance style, and also to a "music genre". Present in the Portuguese language at least since the 19th century, the word "samba" was originally used to designate a "popular dance". Having its roots in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, as well as other Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous folk traditions, such as the traditional Samba de Caboclo, it is considered one of the most important cultural phenomena in Brazil and one of the country's symbols. Samba is a broad term for many of the rhythms that compose the better known Brazilian music genres that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early 20th century, having continued its development on the communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Samba ( Portuguese pronunciation: ( listen)), is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca ( urban Carioca samba), samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, amongst many other forms of Samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia States.
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