At the end of the eighteenth century, on the verge of Independence, certain musical forms and constancies began to take shape, such as lundu, 1 1
The few existing documents show that groups such as Portuguese, blacks and native Brazilians had their own particular musical manifestation. During the Colonial Period, there was no popular music that could actually be called Brazilian music.
The birth of the Brazilian Republic reaffirmed the need for social and aesthetic development of our popular music.
