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million. And it was not only in Salvador that the
party street in the days of
carnival won such gigantic proportions. <
BR>In Recife, the Gall''s Madrugada attracts more than a million and a half people, and is in the
book of records as the biggest bloc Carnival of the world. In Rio de Janeiro, the parade in the Sambódromo is televisionado to more than 180 countries - a show of global reach.
In Almanaque the carnival, the historian Andrew Diniz account how it all started, leading the
reader on a journey through time. More than a
history of the carnival, the book is a history of musical genres identified with that party: the samba, a marchinha, the frevo and axé.
The reader will encounter songs, composers and performers that epoch and with that gain prominence in actuality. Biographies are small, curious cases and information on the political, social and cultural of each period. And the author also deals with phenomena of the market as Ivete Sangalo and is the Tchan, breaking the barriers imposed by traditional criticism
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