The emergence of black nationalism and the funk style went hand in hand in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. África Brasil shows that Ben was very much in tune with the evolving scene in black America. In addition to the stylistic change, Ben’s lyrics exhibited a heightened sense of black pride. On África Brasil, Ben abandoned his signature swinging, acoustic “samba-soul” or “samba-rock” style, switched to an electric guitar, and transformed his approach, delivering a set of tunes that melded the central elements of his approach to samba with hard-driving funk grooves. Like Bob Dylan leaving the folk scene behind, strapping on an electric guitar, and assaulting the crowd at Newport with a set of searing electric blues-rock a decade earlier, Jorge Ben’s África Brasil sent shockwaves through his loyal audience.
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