Understand the Begining of Samba Brazil Music & Rhythms — brazilcarnival.com.br

In our voyage across the Brazilian Carnaval culture, we definitely need to make a stop at the origins of samba music.  Without this understanding, we believe our readers would simply be unable to comprehend the development of the Carnaval culture in Brazil.  As you will see below, since the late 19th century, samba music sprouted into several directions, and today we observe more than 20 different types of samba.  As an example, the samba performed at the carnival parades in Rio is only one of these variations.  In the other hand, samba-schools in Rio who perform Carnaval show are intrinsically related to the samba music community itself.  The evidence of this mutual relationship goes back to origins of the samba-schools, when many samba composers were in fact their founding members.  In terms of the Carnaval parades themselves, not only the samba-music brings life to the show, but sometimes serves as inspiration for plot-themes.   As you will see below, without the emergence and development of the samba-music, ‘the world´s largest party - the Brazilian Carnaval’, would definitely not exist.

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