batuque

American  

[buh-too-kuh] / bəˈtu kə /

noun

1. a Brazilian round dance of African origin.

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Etymology

Origin of batuque

From Portuguese, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

That, says Souza, is most probably an early performance of batuque - and she was inspired to write the song Sant Jago by Darwin's accounts of the warm hospitality he received on Cape Verde.

From BBC

She has combined jazz and English sea shanties with Cape Verdean rhythms - including the funaná, played on an iron rod with a knife and the accordion, and the batuque, played by women and based on African drumming rhythms.

From BBC

Adjei is a Ghanian-Dutch filmmaker, schooled in Utrecht, the Netherlands and Ghent, Belgium, whose past credits include videos for Madonna’s “Dark Ballet” and “Batuka,” both taken from her 2019 album Madame X. The latter, which takes its title and musical cues from the Cape Verdean genre batuque, was shot on the coast of Portugal and references the country’s role in the slave trade.

From Slate

Madonna was more suited to the harder beat of “Batuka” a song based on the matriarchal, call-and-response Cape Verdean tradition of batuque.

From New York Times

Backed by more than a dozen batuque drummers and singers — Orquestra Batukadeiras — and doing some hip-shimmying batuque moves, Madonna conveyed the delight of her discovery, even as the hand-played beat gave way to electronic percussion.

From New York Times