O carnaval de rua de São Luís: transformação e forma de expressão (1950 a 1970)

Abstract

The study deals with the camival as substance of a historiografia defíned in the field of cultural history. The camival possesss many facetas and if it originates in the Europe to arrive at Brazil and in the tropical environment if to transform, still suffered influence from the attitudes of the urban blacks. It also has influence o f complex social relations, exclusion and distinction. In the Maranhão it has proper characteristics, and the cultural diversity of the country. It still evolves as the transformations of the relations, arriving at the decades of 50 the 70 as dispute enters environments of the Street and the balis o f closed enclosures. In the Sixties, o f Street and o f hall they had been marked by the use of you mask. In the Seventies it started if to propagate the samba schools, the brincantes had started to organize and to form groups wants later had been called schools.