Pimba

Emanuel, an icon of the pimba music scene.

Pimba[1] is an umbrella term for Portuguese types or genres of music with an uptempo style and/or folk song features, corny romantic or saucy and vulgar lyrics, which was often associated with poorly educated public from rural areas and suburban poor or working-class neighbourhoods, as well as with Portuguese economic migrants living abroad who spend their holidays in their ancestors' localities across the Portuguese countryside.[2][3][4] The Portuguese word pimba by itself means a quick, unexpected event or the end of an action, and is also a slang code word for having any type of sexual pleasure with another person.[5] A loose translation could be the English word bang[6] when used to express an act of sexual intercourse or the expression "wham!".[7] In the context of Portuguese music, the genre was christened Pimba after Emanuel's 1995 single called Pimba Pimba.[8]

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  2. ^ Elliott, Richard (2010). "4. New Citizens of the Fadista world". Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City. Ashgate. p. 135. ISBN 9780754667957.
  3. ^ "I'm not the one to blame, you were asking for it". Vogue Portugal. 2021-06-05.
  4. ^ "A culpa não foi minha, tu é que querias festa". Vogue Portugal. 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2023-03-21 – via PressReader.
  5. ^ S.A, Priberam Informática. "pimba". Dicionário Priberam (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  6. ^ "Definition of BANG". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  7. ^ "Definition of wham". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  8. ^ Emanuel - Pimba Pimba (Vídeo Oficial) (1995), retrieved 2023-03-05 – via YouTube