Friday, December 13, 2013

Brazil Culture Dancing

Salvador is one of the cities that are well known for the annual street carnival. At this time, the tourists come in large numbers to the city for an impressive version of a traditional celebration that mainly features the samba dancing days, the general atmosphere of glee and excitement, and the decadent parties. In addition to the samba dancers having the floats that have the elaborate costumes, they also carry what looks like largest mobile speakers on the planet and then make their way through the city through a pre-determined route of thousands of people lining in the streets (Silver, n.d). The carnival celebration is colorful with a city that is full of color and music.

In Bahia, the carnival celebration has its own unique mix of music and mayhem that cannot be easily copied as an experience. At this city, the floats flow though the streets in the main parade, on the same process more than two million dancers, musicians and the all-round merrymakers prance thereafter. It is called a celebration of life and that life can give, felt pounding in the chest, the flickering of the eyes across the colorful crowds, and the pulse of the feet that goes in accordance with the beat of samba. The celebration came from a single day where the rich can be able to intermingle with the poor the private clubs cannot be separated from the street side festivities. The utter chaos and the lack of distinction isolate this celebration from other cities (The Carnival Signal, 2003)  .

In Sao Paulo the celebration is different it begins from the day of Friday just before Ash Wednesday and continues to through to Tuesday night. The events range from the free to the outrageously expensive, from the family-friendly to the toxically debauched. The samba schools gather at their sites where they rehearse to watch the aparacao and to get drunk one last time to celebrate their win. Carnival at Sao Paulo is held for five days and marks the beginning of Lent. It is characterized with a noisy festival that is full of excitement and long nights and also it is not easy to be able to see the noise-tolerant Brazilians leaving the city for a more peaceful vacation. At this time the Brazilians will dress in elaborate and colorful costumes to join the carnival. The shops will be stocked full of the feathery costumes, hats, and much more. The samba schools are made up of the composers, dancers, singers, and the percussionists that perform samba during his celebration. One of the distinctions made is that many of them originate from the soccer fan clubs like Gavioes.

Axe music is one of the most popular music that has its origin in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the year 1986. It includes some of the influences the afro-Brazilian music such as carixada, Forro, and Frevo. Some of the individuals that enhanced the creation of the music were Alfredo Moura, Luiz Caldas, Sarajane and others (Piers, n.d). This word called axe, came from a religious meeting called Yoruba that means the soul, spirit, light or the vibration. The root of this Axe music was in the guitarra baiana. This is a style of guitar that used the electric guitars to play the pernambucco. This type of music was purely instrumental and it remained up to the time when one of the bands of Novos Baianos went solo.

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