Grande Rio 2012

CARNAVAL COMPLETO DESFILE OFICIAL GRANDE RIO 2012

Carnival of Brasil

Desfile da Mangueira, no Rio de Janeiro (Fotoarena)

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The Carnival of Brazil (Portuguese: Carnaval, IPA: [kaʁnaˈvaw]) is an annual festival held forty-six days before Easter. On certain days of Lent, Roman Catholics and some other Christians traditionally abstained from the consumption of meat and poultry, hence the term "carnival," from carnelevare, "to remove (literally, "raise") meat."^[1] Carnival have roots in the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which, adapted to Christianity, became a farewell to bad things in a season of religious discipline to practice repentance and prepare for Christ's death and resurrection.

Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another. In the southeastern cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, huge organized parades are led by samba schools. Those official parades are meant to be watched by the public, while minor parades ("blocos") allowing public participation can be found in other cities. The northeastern cities of Salvador, Porto Seguro and Recife have organized groups parading through streets, and public interacts directly with them.  Also in northeast, Olinda carnival features unique characteristics, part influenced by Venice Carnival mixed with cultural depictions of local folklore.

The typical genres of music of Brazilian carnival are, in Rio de Janeiro (and Southeast Region in general): the samba-enredo, the samba de bloco, the samba de embalo and the marchinha ; in Pernambuco and Bahia (and Northeast Region in general) the main genres are: the frevo, the maracatu, the samba-reggae and Axé music .

SAMBA:



http://www.brazilcarnival.com.br/videos Clip of Samba Dancing in Rio: Top Samba Dancers from Sao Clemente Samba School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mora na Filosofia (Monsueto Menezes/ Arnaldo Passos) – Marlene 

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CARMEN MIRANDA - O QUE É QUE A BAIANA TEM (REMIX 2009) 

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Cadê Tereza? (Jorge Ben) – Jorge Ben e Originais do Samba 

 

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Pais Tropical by Jorge Ben Jor

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Gilberto Gil - Aquele Abraço

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Cântico à Natureza (As Quatro Estações/Primavera) - Nelson Sargento & Chico César

Oh! Primavera adorada
Inspiradora de amores
Oh! Primavera idolatrada
Sublime estação das flores 

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Casa de Bamba Martinho da Vila Lp Mono 1969

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Beth Carvalho - VouFestejar (Com a Bateria da Mangueira)

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marchinha :

Carmem Costa & Colé - Cachaça ( marchinha de carnaval - 1953 )

 

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Copacabana (1947) - Carmen Miranda - "Tico Tico No Fubá"

 

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Carmen Miranda - Chica Chica Boom Chic 

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FREVO:

FREVO de Pernambuco em Budapest (Pimenta)

 

Frevo describes is a wide range of musical styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, all of which are traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word frevo is said to come from frever, a misspeaking of the Portuguese word ferver (to boil)

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Axé  :

Pancadao_Axe-Bahia

(suspicious about this genre because  it is considered a cliché and stereotype purely commercial music but I find it amusing .)

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bossa nova :

DORIVAL CAYMMI " SAUDADE DA BAHIA " 

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Stan Getz Feat Astrud Gilberto Samba De Una Nota /One Note Samba

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As 10 melhores marchinhas de Carnaval de todos os tempos :

http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/10-mais/diversao/as-10-melhores-marchinhas-de-carnaval-de-todos-os-tempos/

Carnaval, Diversão

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Brazil Carnival 2012 !  watch more of this extravaganza of visual delights!

Men and women think differently about colour.

According to a video created as part of the ad campaign, a quick name change instantaneously changes men’s perceptions, making them compliant with women’s wishes (“The colour she wants with a name he’ll agree to”):





romance or duct tape light? ( different names for the same color)
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hmmm what is she talking about?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Häkelblümchen!! Guerilla Knitting

Knitted protest

There are similar knitted interventions happening in other cities to, from Sweden to New Zealand. The most common name for it is “Guerilla Knitting”, like Guerilla Gardening, which involves people secretly planting flowers in empty urban spaces. Guerilla Knitting also has a political angle. In Vienna, for example, it is direct protest against the inequality women experience in society.
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a "dressed" signifier

(Saussure defined language as a “system of signs that express ideas” and the sign as the basic linguistic unit. The concepts of the signifier and signified were introduced by Saussure, who argued that their relationship was completely arbitrary. In other words, he believed that there was no underlying rationale for using red octagon to symbolize a command to stop at an intersection. He thought such associations developed completely by chance)

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Magda Sayeg gives a Paris statue a legwarmer

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