Estruturas musicais do samba-enredo

Abstract

This research intends to demonstrate the main transformations of the music of the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro through the transcription, cataloging and analysis of its most recurrent melodic, harmonic and formal structures. The analyzed structures include those that I considered as characteristics of samba-enredo, which are used by a large number of composers from diverse epochs and stylistic tendencies. From their detailed study, I examine the presence of formularity in the composition process of the sambistas, which may be related both to the oral model of thinking and behavior that still exists in the samba schools and to the fact that samba-enredo is embedded in a capitalist logic that ranges from the cultural industry it takes part in (disc recording, radio and TV broadcasting) to the way of choosing the works that are presented in the carnival.

Orality and Capitalist Logic in the Music of Samba Schools

“…I would like to thank Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) for the financial support (process number 14/27355-6) of my doctoral thesis (Souza 2018), on which this article is based.…”