The rimas recurrence in samba enredo carioca between the 1970 and 2010 decades

doi.org/10.29327/217514.7.1-21

Abstract

Carnival in Rio, as a Brazilian cultural representative, annually presents, as one of its most important manifestations, the parade of samba schools. These presentations are real open air shows, capable of bringing together visual and musical elements in a true symbiosis. The samba enredo stands out, a genuinely Brazilian musical genre and inextricably linked to the parades. Its origin dates back to the first half of the 20th century and its evolution is widely debated and studied, mainly in the last decades. Composed of two fundamental pillars, lyrics and melody, we will stick to the poetic details of the first one. Thus, in this work we will analyze the evolution of the samba enredo genre through the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, under the optics of rhyme recurrence in the lyrics of their compositions.