ABSTRACT
SAMBA BATUCADA Samba batucada, or street samba, is used throughout Brazil for the large street parades during Carnival. e samba batucada developed in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century, when various neighborhood groups descended on the city streets during Carnival. Around the 1930s, these groups of some 70 to 100 participants were organized into escolas de samba (samba schools) for formal competitions. Today’s escolas de samba may consist of 3,000 to 5,000 participants, and the bateria (battery) incorporates several hundred percussionists who dance and entertain as well as play handheld or attached
instruments made of light metal and/or membranes of plastic or animal skin.
