The History Of Rio De Janeiro's Carnival Part 2

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Another great addition to the Carnival was the Corso back in the early 20th century (1907). They paraded with cars along Av. Rio Branco. They are considered to be the original authors of today's complex floats. The revealers brought paper confetti, streamers and lanca-perume which was a spray of cologne water that would have given you sort of a buzz. It was so popular in the last part of the 30s that during the celebration almost all car owners in the city took part in the event. Their parade began in Botafogo on Saturday and went all the way to Av. Central.

Without any doubt, Rio de Janeiro is the place of birth for samba. It all started in the last part of the 19th century in Little Africa, the home of the tias baianas. These were women who traveled from Bahia and made a living by selling food delicacies around the town wearing their typical white dresses with big round skirts. They had a significant influence in the community and were the priestesses of Candomble.

From all of these tias, Tia Ciata was probably the most popular one. Born in 1854 in Reconcavo Baiano. In her own living room, meetings were in many ...
... cases entertained with the help of live music that was played by talents like Donga (son of Tia Amelia) and Pixinguinha. The samba took place in the back of her house, and the term samba was then used in order to denominate the ritual Candomble dance to drums and handclaps.

Later on these two beats got together and the first song labeled as a samba was Pelo Telefone, a song composes right inside her house. Another samba song that will remain in history is Corn que Roupa? performed by Noel Rosa.

The cordoes later on evolved in blocos de sujos, where everybody was invited, even those that were wearing normal clothes and also blocos de baianas. The latter were in fact men dressed in white colonial clothes and performed as security to the blocos. There was a women-only chorus of pastoras, a vocalist and a percussion board. They had a huge success in the 30s and 40s and Bafo da Onca is one of the most popular. Their contemporany siblings would have to be the Monobloco nad bandas like Banda de Ipanema, but they perform a little bit different.

During the late 1920s, many organizers of blocos felt like they needed to evolve and found their inspiration in the ranchos that were a little bit more organized. The term escola de samba - samba school, was and still is credited to Ismael Silva. The samba gained more and more fluidity in order to be adapted to the evolution of the school. The first samba school was Mangueira, founded in 1928.

A few years later in the 40s and 50s, these samba schools have already consolidated their evolution cycle, with a song, a theme as well as floats and costumes. In the 60s and 70s it began to be more popular among the middle and upper middle class. Nowadays, the samba schools are considerably more complex and there are many floats and wings.

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