Africa-Press – Angola. Angola is working continuously to elevate the song “Semba”, to UNESCO’s intangible heritage of humanity, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Filipe Zau, said this Thursday.
The minister provided the information, in statements to the press, at the end of the II Ordinary Session of the National Multisectoral Commission for the Safeguarding of World Cultural Heritage, guided by the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa.
He highlighted that he is working with a UNESCO expert, Júlio Sá Rego, who has already visited the country and with some national experts who understand the subject, namely musicians and composers.
The Semba musical style was elevated to National Intangible Heritage by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, within the scope of the national program of celebrations for the International Day of Monuments and Sites, marked on April 18, 2023.
It is a genre of traditional Angolan music and dance that became very popular from the 1950s onwards.
As a musical genre, current semba is the result of a complex process of fusion and transposition, especially the guitar, of different rhythmic segments, based fundamentally on percussion, the basic element of African cultures. It also gave rise to several other styles, such as Brazilian samba.
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