The carnival is celebrated in Rio since the end of the XVIIth century from a variant of the entrudo (entered the Fast), a portuguese party which consisted in throwing each other buckets of waters or to send some mud, eggs, flour on the passers-by. This event, considered as violent and tasteless, was finally forbidden.
The Rio carnival such as it exists today was born in the XIXth century, after the abolition of the slavery in 1 888. It is only later that the music of African origin is going to make its entrance and would be going determining in its evolution.
However private balls of the good society are going to privilege the polka. Social cleavage is evident: Well-off classes dance in worldly lounges whereas common people stirs in streets over the sound of the percussion's sound.
Then the Carnival is going to take more and more scale and this enjoyment which show the blacks will be more and more shared by all the classes of society.
So everybody can participate in the carnival, and even those who are not cariocas (inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro) become them the time of the party.
Today the carnival is a popular entertainment collecting all the social classes and creating the unity of the Brazilian people
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