Ethnography of Samba in Salvador: tradition, market and spectacularization.
samba from Bahia; music market; spectacularization.
This thesis analyzes the resurgence of urban samba practices in Salvador in recent decades, in different events and new spaces for socialization and leisure, which recreate and maintain the traditional ways of making samba in the city, inserted in the market scenario of music produced in Bahia and in the context of spectacularization that marks the culture of contemporary societies. The conclusion showed that samba integrates the way of life, as a musical and symbolic basis, of the black and mestizo population of the city.