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The
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a
world famous festival held before
Lent every year. The carnival parade
is filled with people and floats
from various samba schools. A samba
school can either be an actual
school or just a collaboration of
local neighbors that want to attend
carnival. Samba schools include:
Mocidade Independente, Imperio
Serrano, Academicos do Salgueiro,
Unidos da Tijuca, and Beija-Flor de
Nilopolis.
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The
purpose of carnival is for samba
schools to compete with fellow rival
schools; this competition is the
climax of the whole carnival
festival. Each school chooses a
theme to try and portray in their
entry. The samba schools work to
build the best floats and costumes
to represent their themes, and to
include the best music they can from
their band called the bateria. There
are many parts to each school's
entry including the six to eight
floats and thousands of
participants.
As the
parade is taking place in the
Sambadrome and the balls are being
held in the Copacabana Palace and
beach, many of the carnival
participants are at other locations.
Street festivals are very common
during carnival and are highly
populated by the locals. Elegance
and extravagance are usually left
behind, but music and dancing are
still extremely common. Anyone is
allowed to participate in the street
festivals. Bandas and bondos are
very familiar with the street
carnival especially because it takes
nothing to join in on the fun except
to jump in. One of the most well
known bandas of Rio is Banda de
Ipanema. Banda de Ipanema was first
created in 1965 and is known as
Rio’s most irreverent street band.
The samba is the main dance of Rio
Carnival but it is not performed in
silence. Music is another major
aspect of all parts of carnival. As
stated by Samba City, “Samba
Carnival Instruments are an
important part of Brazil and the Rio
de Janeiro Carnevale, sending out
the irresistible beats and rhythms
making the crowd explode in a
colourful dance revolution.
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