![]() 4 In consequence, samba symbolizes the Brazilian stereotype in Europe as well as in the United States.Īt the beginning, the expansion of samba schools 5 represented the re-establishment of oppressed classes by the hegemonic groups… The prohibition of any critic, politic and socioeconomic claim during parades, was one of the ways to prevent a possible collective awareness of the suburbs. ![]() 3 It transforms in a product of commercialization and exportation, and a product of national identity unification. 2 “Technically, samba has a 2/4 meter, an emphasis on the second beat, a stanza-and-refrain alternation structure, and many interlocking, syncopated lines in the melody and accompaniment.” (McGowan and Pessanha, The Brazilian 23) From being a non-canonical expression, of marginal sectors and working classes, samba becomes the representation of Brazil. Musically is a responsorial singing that has cultivated the call-and-response performing style, and percussive interplay, the batucada. ![]() We will take as an analysis example the song Apesar de Vocé to be in my opinion, one of the songs that contains –into samba genre- a mayor grade of social and political critic, framed in historical time.ĭuring the first government period of General Getulio Vargas (1930-1937), and during his militar dictatorship (1937-1945, called Estado Novo ) the development of samba as a unifying element of Brazilian culture had a big importance. Buarque creates a fusion between popular culture and cult poetry, element that I will associate to the creation of sacred spaces. We give importance to revaluation of samba genre in Buarque’s creation through poetry, taking in account the socio-political context of 1960’s and 1970’s in Brazil (more specifically in the city of Rio de Janeiro) under the oppression of military dictatorship. This work intends to relate the musical and lyrical frames in the work of Chico Buarque.
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