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It
isn’t difficult to adapt your personal style to one of the
innumerable expressions of Carioca
(native to Rio) joy you can
see at Carnival. ln the Samba Schools (not “schools” really,
but community social groups thatform to rehearse weekly and
parade together each year),
in the neighborhood bands, in the balls
at private clubs, and even
in the poor neighborhoods ringing the
city, Carnival is the greatest
annual feast
of popular creativity in Brazil
—
and
probably in the world.
There
are literally thousands upon thousands of people who leave their
chores to rehearse dance steps, compose music, tune their
instruments, sew costumes, and “get into” the Samba.
Carnival is many things, but above all, it is a whole people expressing
its
joys and sorrows with arms open, ready to welcome the whole
world to the.party.
“A
nyone who doesn’t like Samba isn’t a good person”, says
the music,
and goes on to say that anyone who doesn’t like Carnival
“is
surely not right ira his head or has a sickness in his feet”.
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