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The Samba Schools of Rio De Janeiro or the Domestication of an Urban Mass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Maria Isaura Péreira de Queiroz
Maria Isaura Péreira de Queiroz*
Affiliation:
University of São Paulo
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Rio de Janeiro, the opening of the carnival. On the Friday evening preceding Mardi Gras, the mayor of Rio hands over the keys to the city to King Momo, sovereign of the carnival. Immediately the samba breaks out in the brightly lit streets of the city. Newspapers, magazines and television feature big headlines describing the event and glorifying the holiday kingdom. They all report that the city is being shaken by winds of madness, that licence and inversions of every variety are rampant, that the leveling of individuals and the abolition of social distances illustrate the resolutions of conflicts in a collective dream of joy and happiness…

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 33 , Issue 129 , March 1985 , pp. 1 - 32
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Copyright © 1985 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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This article is part of a book in preparation on the Brazilian carnival.

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