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	Brazilian Carnival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Carnival, a fat man is elected to represent the role of Rei Momo, the "king" of Carnival.
		Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is known worldwide for the elaborate parades staged by the city’s major samba schools in the Sambadrome and is one of the world’s major tourist attractions.
		The musical styles are different at each carnival; in Bahia there are many rhythms, including samba, samba-reggae, Axé and frevo, while in Rio there are the multiples variations of samba: the "samba-enredo", the "samba de bloco", the "samba de embalo", the "funk-samba", as well as the famous "marchinhas" played by the "bandas" in the streets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_Carnival (800 words)

	* Irene's Country Corner * - Brasil - Carnival
		In 2001, carnival began on February, 24, in 2002 on February, 9 and in 2003, on March, 1.
		Carnival was introduced in Brazil in 1723, with the immigration from the islands of Madeira, Açores and Cabo Verde, and gradually changed along the years, assimilating local elements, especially from African culture.
		Brazilian carnival has its origin in the old Portuguese pre-Lent celebration known as "entrudo" (from the Latin word introito, which means beginning).
	www.irenescorner.com /home/braziliancorner/carnival/index.htm (610 words)

	Brazilian themes with information about brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Carnival was born in Egypt, passed through Greece and Rome, was adapted by the Catholic Church and arrived in Brazil in the 17 th century, brought by the Portuguese, who discovered and colonized Brazil.
		Carnival of Bahia: beyond the traditional public street parties (where people sing and dance), the main attraction of the Bahian carnival are the trios elétricos – musicians who go through the city on top of platforms on trucks equipped with loudspeakers, which play axé;, typical Bahian music, so the people can dance.
		Carnival of São Paulo: the Paulista carnival, which was a party restricted to the ballrooms, began to be celebrated on the streets, under the influence of the Carioca carnival, and it imitates the style of the big Carioca escolas de samba, emphasizing the luxury of the clothing, costumes and masks.
	www.brazilianresolution.com /brazilian-carnival.html (580 words)

	ipanema.com ALL ABOUT CARNIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - insider's guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Carnival is time to forget your inhibitions, wear a wild costume, play a character, live out your fantasies.
		Carnival in the streets is a living proof of this love.
		Banda de Ipanema became a major highlight of Carnival in Rio, and was declared part of the city's cultural heritage in 2005.
	www.ipanema.com /carnival/home.htm (407 words)

	Brazil Travel - Carnival - Salvador
		The Brazilian Carnival has strong influence from the Africans, and Salvador is the flest Brazilian city.
		While in Rio most of the Carnival happens in ball-rooms and in the Sambadrome (which require people to pay to participate), in Salvador most events happen in the streets and beaches, and are free for all.
		A tradition of the Carnival in Salvador is the "trios eletricos" (electric trio).
	www.braziltravel.com /carnival/salvador (292 words)

	Brazilian Carnival - Carnival
		The Brazilian Carnival is an annual feast, celebrated fourty days before the Easter (marking the start of a religious period, the Lent), in Brazil.
		The Brazilian Carnival is known in Brazil simply as "carnaval".
		The main festivity in Brazilian Carnival takes place in Rio de Janeiro, with its samba schools, blocos and bandas which occupy entire neighbourhoods.
	www.e-carnival.com /brazilian_carnival (323 words)

	* Irene's Country Corner * - Brasil - Carnival in Bahia
		Brazilian singers and groups perform at the top of a truck with musicians and speakers in the streets of Salvador.
		Carnival in Bahia is famous not only for the "trios elétricos" or the "blocos de trio", but also to the force of other cultural street manifestations like the "afoxés" and the "blocos Afro".
		The "afoxé;" Filhos de Gandhi (Gandhi's sons), supported by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado and the composer Gilberto Gil, was founded in 1949 and is the most traditional and famous "afoxé;" in Bahia.
	www.irenescorner.com /home/braziliancorner/carnival/bahiacarnival.htm (1067 words)

	Carnivals of the world, brazilian carnival, photos, costumes, shoes
		The word carnival is also used to describe other type of festivities that are not placed in the time before Lent but that share similar elements such us marches of music groups.
		The carnival, as a consequence, had to continue its evolution in the villages and small towns, places that were not important at all and where the celebrations didn’t offend the elites.
		The Carnival of Bogotá had to wait until XXI century to be brought back by the same authorities of the city.
	www.thecarnivals.com (776 words)

	Samba and Carnival: Brazilian Dance and Music - Hip Brazil: Everything Brazil
		Carnival has it's roots in the pre-Christian era as the spring festival like the Roman New Year Celebration of Saturnalia or even the previous Greek Cult of Dionysus.
		In 1935 the samba schools were organize as official Carnival organization: in return, the schools agreed to abide by the city regulations governing the use of musical instruments and the allegorical themes around which the pageants had to be structured.
		The Brazilian Carnival it is a mix of European and African folk influences.
	www.hipbrazil.com /dance_samba.html (720 words)

	Carnival in Brazil: Selected Sources
		Since Brazilian newspapers are infrequently indexed this is a valuable resource for tracing recent transformations in Carnival, and for examining the treatment of Carnival by the press.
		During Carnival the social structure is inverted as people use costumes to take on different identities: the poor are royalty, the wealthy are maids, adults are children, and men are women.
		Concludes that Carnival is a mixture of social myth and reality: it is bound to the socio-economic structure of the country; as that structure changes, so does Carnival.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /benson/bibnot/bn-88.html (2805 words)

	Brazilian Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Brazilians dance to spite their plight, and to transcend it---believing that pleasure is the only way to relieve pain.
		Whereas Rio's Carnival is famous for its grand balls and samba school parades, Carnival in Salvador is one of the world's great, spontaneous street parties.
		In addition to the usual all-day, all-night pandemonium, Carnival here offers astounding treats in the form of the regional frjvo, caboclinho, and maracatz dances, in which participants scoff at gravity and push the limits of human endurance.
	www.andetur.com.br /us/Brazil/festival.htm (1879 words)

	Afropop Worldwide
		Carnival street parades followed a decade later with horse drawn floats and military bands.
		The sound closely associated with the Brazilian carnival, the samba, wasn't part of carnival until 1917.
		Bahia's carnival is perhaps the world's largest public festivity, attracting crowds of three million that dance through the night in Salvador's historic colonial streets.
	www.afropop.org /multi/feature/ID/33 (804 words)

	"4 DAYS OF CARNIVAL, 361 DAYS OF..."
		The Brazilian carnival is celebrated by the Brazilian and foreign media alike as the biggest show on earth.
		Generally, many Brazilian people say that carnival is a democratic festival, without prejudices, a moment which reflects, at least temporarily, the aspirations of the Brazilians poor.
		The Brazilian society is suffering the consequences of visual illiteracy, present in all social classes, all over Brazil, amongst people who have reached university and those ones who never have been in a school class.
	www.brazilianartists.net /exhibition/introduction.htm (642 words)

	Brazil Travel - Carnival
		Again, the Brazilian creativity came into place: they mixed up entrudo and Carnival, and created a celebration with fantasies, dance, and parades and, above all, the sense that the laws were temporarily laxed and everyone is allowed to have fun.
		Today, Carnival in Brazil is basically the same: a period of feast, when people may forget some social rules and just have fun.
		Evidence is that Carnival is referred to as folia, which means something like "mess", or something with no rules.
	www.braziltravel.com /carnival (356 words)

	8th Brazilian Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The occasion is Carnival, and for Olodum, the most famous of Salvador's blocos Afros, the theme is fl history.
		Olodum's yearly Carnival themes focus on fl history and contemporary fl political movements in Africa and in the African diaspora.
		In 1998, Olodum's Carnival theme was A Revolta dos Búzios —A Rota da Liberdade, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of this slave revolt, the first of a string of slave rebellions in Bahia that lasted through the first part of the 19th century (see Slave Rebellions in Latin America and the Caribbean).
	www.brazilianfilmfestival.com /8/scripts_english/show.asp (1133 words)

	Brazilian carnival
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	Brazilian Carnival Brazil Carnaval
		Carnival is the most famous holiday in Brazil.
		Carnival is celebrated in the south where by Wednesday everything comes back to normal.
		Unfortunately, some people aren't conscientious and give it a bad name, leaving a bad impression of this holiday, but it is the only national holiday that moves all the country and its different kinds of people and cultures together.
	www.newjerseybrasil.com /carnival-brazil.html (570 words)

	Brazilian Carnival Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toronto’s Brazilian Carnival Ball is the largest and most spectacular annual Brazilian gala in the world.
		This dazzling evening is an authentic Brazilian extravaganza, a recreation of the glamorous Rio Carnival.
		For one night only, the Brazilian Carnival Ball flies in mesmerizing dancers, electrifying musicians and magnificent costumes directly from Rio de Janeiro.
	www.brazilianball.com (99 words)

	Samba History and Brazilian Carnival birth!
		Samba history and the history of Carnival are intertwined and can be traced back to Africa and the slave trading.
		The carnival was early established in Europe as the festival of the lent, or “carne vale” which means good bye to the flesh/meat.
		The Brazil Carnival history in Rio de Janeiro began with a violent form of festival known as " the entrudo ".
	www.sambacity.info /samba-history-brazilian-carnival.html (441 words)

	"4 DAYS OF CARNIVAL, 361 DAYS OF..."
		When I was invited to write a few words about the Brazilian carnival, I was as flattered as sceptic and incredulous on what I was going to be able to write down about the party which Brazilians regard as the “greatest country’s popular feast”.
		It was brought by in the 17th century and it referred to a sort of preamble to the Lent.
		However, that is not the carnival proclaimed by the media neither the carnival Brazilians are proud of.
	www.brazilianartists.net /exhibition/thelaughofamask.htm (1068 words)

	Colombian women - Latin women - Single Colombian Women
		Carnival 2005 is from February 5 through 8.
		Barranquilla women in Colombia are the same and these are the best two carnivals in Latin America. Barranquilla is closer and less expensive. You also can meet over 800 Barranquilla women seeking foreign men at the Colombian women marriage agency.
		Carnival balls were imported to Rio from Italy in the late nineteenth century, and had their golden era in the 1930 through 50's, with legendary balls at the Copacabana Palace and the Municipal Theater.The Samba Parade began in the 30's - first timidly at Praça XI, and later on Av.
	www.carnivaltours.com (300 words)

	Travel Observations: The Brazilian Carnival
		The Brazilian Carnival is an annual celebration, celebrated forty days before Easter (marking the start of Lent), in Brazil.
		The most international known festivity in Brazilian Carnival takes place in Rio de Janeiro, with its samba schools, blocos and bandas that occupy entire neighborhoods.
		During the Carnival, a fat man is elected to represent the role of Rei Momo, the "king" of Carnival, whose rule is one of fun instead of that of everyday authorities.
	www.globalartmall.com /travel/2006/02/brazilian-carnival.html (364 words)

	Consulate General of Brazil - Carnival
		Carnival's roots go back to the ancient Romans and Greeks who celebrated the rites of Spring.
		Since the slaves were grateful for the chance to enjoy themselves, they rarely used the occasion as a chance to run away.
		Prior to 1840, the streets of Brazilian towns ran riot during the three-day period leading up to Ash Wednesday with people in masks hurling stink bombs and squirting each other with flour and strong-smelling liquids; even arson was a form of entertainment.
	www.brazilsf.org /culture_carnival_eng.htm (433 words)

	Brazilian Carnival - 2006
		At 4pm the glittering Brazilian carnival will transform the streets of Islington and immerse on-lookers in the sizzling atmosphere of Rio Carnival.
		The carnival is led by London based carnival groups Paraiso School of Samba, Quilombo do Samba and Mandinga Arts, and will also feature performers of all ages from the local community.
		Their mission is to bring the authentic culture of Rio samba schools to London and the UK and to promote the art of carnival, including percussion, music, dance, costume-making and community projects.
	www.sadlerswells.com /whats_on/2005_2006/carnival_procession.asp (392 words)

	Download details: Carnival
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		Brazilian Carnival is famous all around the world.
		Choose among the 3 types of carnival parties that we have in Brazil or a general wallpaper with all the 3.
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	Brazilian Music Samba Beat Brazil Carnival Brazil Jazz
		A pioneer of Brazilian Music Samba, Angenor de Oliveira, was quoted as saying "In my childhood, we played the Samba in the backyards of the old ladies, whom we call "tias" (aunts), and the police stopped us often, because the Samba, then, was considered a "thing" of bums and bandits."
		to the Brazilian Music style samba art form, he is considered an intellectual, or eccentric, but if an African descendent does the same, he is seeing like somebody who does not want to get a job, or something in that level.
		Unlike other societies that cherish the Blues, the Jazz, the Mambo, the Rumba, the Reggae and others, and sees these musical art forms as a national treasure and are proud of it, Brazilian society refuses to recognize the Samba as a culture, as Brazil's main culture and pays no respect to their masters.
	www.newjerseybrasil.com /samba.html (552 words)

	Brazil Vacations - Carnival in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and South America;
		Many Brazilians from all over the country flock to Salvador da Bahia to experience the most authentic and exciting street festival in the world.
		You will be able view the Carnival Blocos from this safe and secure location and then in a moment walk out and be right amongst the action on the boulevard.
		Carnival officially starts on Thursday night at 8:00PM when the keys of the city are given to the Carnaval King "Rei Momo".
	www.brazilvacations.net /carnivalinbrazil.htm (1314 words)

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