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Carnivals in Latin America and the Caribbean, are of European origin that have been profoundly transformed by diverse New World African expressive cultures throughout the Americas. Although Carnival is celebrated in many Latin American and Caribbean cities, this description will focus on four different Carnivals: in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil; Port of Spain, Trinidad; and New Orleans. Although Carnival symbolism often references the Dionysian celebrations of Ancient Greece and the Bacchanalia, Saturnalia, and Lupercalia of Ancient Rome, the festival tradition itself derives from Christian celebrations before Lent, the 40 days of fasting leading up to Easter. Carnival is historically associated with unrestrained, lewd, and even grotesque behavior among popular classes. One critical tradition, associated with the work of Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, maintains that Carnivals symbolically challenged established authority, inverted social hierarchies, and ridiculed elite culture. In different historical contexts, Carnivalesque laughter, parody, and satire relativized the legitimacy and supremacy of official culture sanctioned by the church, the royal court, the nobility, and/or the bourgeoisie. Of course, social order was always restored on Ash Wednesday, initiating the period of Lent. For this reason, other critics argue that Carnival helps to maintain the social order because it functions as a kind of pressure valve for popular discontent that otherwise could lead to a more sustained challenge to the dominant order. Similar ambiguities exist in the history of Carnival in the Americas, which was usually established by Catholics from France, Spain, and Portugal. Although New World Carnivals were generally founded by white elites for their own amusement, slaves and free workers were, to varying degrees, allowed to celebrate. The ruling slaveholding elite of plantation societies regarded Carnival as useful for diffusing tensions inherent in the master-slave relationship, but also as potentially threatening because it provided oppressed classes with the opportunity to congregate in groups and reaffirm their own cultural identities. While elites held masked balls, inspired by the famous Carnivals of Nice and Venice, the rest celebrated outside on the streets.

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Brazil has the most widespread and dynamic Carnival tradition in the world. Dozens of Brazilian cities celebrate Carnival, but Rio de Janeiro is the most famous for its dazzling visual and musical extravagance. Carnival was brought to Rio in the early 19th century by Portuguese immigrants who celebrated the entrudo, in which popular revellers would spray each other with mud and sewage, while the upper classes amused themselves with perfume sprays. The first masked ball was held at the Hotel Itália in 1840. Eight years later, a Portuguese immigrant initiated the Zé Pereira, a ragtag drum parade for the lower classes. In the 1850s the middle and upper classes developed their own parades featuring competing groups called sociedades, which sponsored allegorical floats. The city's black population generally participated in the cordões, which featured Afro-Brazilian percussion. By the 1870s family-oriented groups called ranchos emerged in the working-class neighborhoods and were noted for introducing annual Carnival themes. In the late 1920s a new type of Carnival organization, the escolas de samba (samba schools), emerged as an alternative to the ranchos. Samba schools began as small community-based groups in the predominantly black working-class neighborhoods and shantytowns, or favelas, of Rio de Janeiro. They steadily expanded throughout the century into complex organizations with thousands of members. The first samba school, Deixa Falar, was founded in 1928 by a group of musicians from Estácio, a neighborhood next to Praça Onze, the square near downtown Rio described at the time as a "miniature Africa." The following year, residents of a local favela founded the Estação Primeira da Mangueira, which would become the oldest surviving samba school. It has remained among the top samba schools along with groups like Portela, Unidos da Tijuca, Império Serrano, Salguiero, Vila Isabel, Mocidade Independente, and Beija-Flor. Since 1984 the top samba schools have paraded down the Passarela do Samba (the Samba Runway), popularly known as the Sambódromo, an official Carnival stadium that seats 90,000 paying spectators. Each samba school must have a Brazil-related theme, which is musically dramatized in the samba-enredo (theme samba) and represented visually by a series of massive carros alegóricos (floats). Several alas (wings) of revellers, including the passistas (master dancers) led by the porta-estandarte (flag bearer) and the mestre-sala (master of ceremonies), dance down the runway and sing the theme song while the large bateria (percussion ensemble) brings up the rear. Rich, famous, and/or beautiful destaques (famous personalities, or highlights) ride on top of the floats. On Ash Wednesday, the official jury announces the winner of the annual samba school contest, an event that generates millions of dollars in ticket sales and broadcast rights.

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