{"id":48,"date":"2007-08-14T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-07-23T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T14:32:44","slug":"influence-of-samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/influence-of-samba\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Points of View – Influence of Samba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry, but no chance. I have to cure my voice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A trip to Nil\u00f3polis, a city in the Rio state, showed me once again how samba is influencing the people’s life and their understanding of their world\/surroundings.
\n\"MAC\"<\/p>\n

The Nilopolis Samba School is called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGr\u00c3\u00aamio Recreativo Escola de Samba Beija-Flor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and was founded after x-mas in 1948. The initial founders were Milton de Oliveira (Negao da Cu\u00c3\u00adca), Edson Vieira Rodrigues (Edinho do Ferro Velho), Helles Ferreira da Silva, M\u00c3\u00a1rio Silva, Walter da Silva, Hamilton Floriano e Jos\u00e9 Fernandes da Silva.<\/p>\n

— So far … everything was fine with me.
\nWalking around with friends they were introducing their district to me. The first thing was the big sculpture of the Beija-Flor and right away we stepped into the world of Samba. (accidently?)
\nKnowing that I am an architect and having this site here, they explained the history and development of Nil\u00c3\u00b3polis. Two growth spurts were noticed: In the 70s and the last 5 years. The reason they gave to me was the results of the Beija-Flor School of carnival. It is true that the school won in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005 e 2007. So twice they won in 3 consecutive years the carnival: in the 70s and in the beginning of the millennium, which is a special honour.
\nAccording to my friends the city of Nil\u00c3\u00b3polis has not only grown because of the results, but also increased taxes, suffered a boom of real estate and commercialization of the whole city and an overall of increase in richness and wellness. And that all due to samba!
\nChecking the internet I found out that the facts are true, but I have my doubts on the causes of these facts.
\n\"MAC\"<\/p>\n

The 1970s:
\nThe Human Development Index (HDI), which is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living for countries worldwide, increases from the 1970 to 1980 for 0.25 points to 0.73. (To give you a reference: high HDI is more than 0.8 and a low HDI is above 0.5.) But this could be due to anything. The increase is nothing extraordinary comparing it to other districts of the carioca metropolitan area. The same can be observed of the increase of inhabitants in the region.
\nLucia Mazzillo Costa already talked about the real estate boom<\/a> in the 70s in Rio.<\/p>\n

The Beginning of the Millennium:
\nRio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics about urbanism is on a good way to make people live outside of the centre which is \u00e2\u20ac\u201caccording to them- already bursting. One of the alternatives is to donate people living on illegal ground a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchouse in the countryside\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 including the a basket with the minimum food every month (the famous 1R$-mini houses of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmorar legal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122). This might be another way to obtain more votes, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe it a valuable solution for the situation in Rio.
\nThe other reason might be the middleclass looking for calm condominios (alphavilles\/watched communities) with reasonable prices – causing an increase in irresponsible traffic problem, since public transport is not the best.
\nEven though when in 1858 the connection to the Central (the main station in Rio) caused the first big nucleus of Nil\u00c3\u00b3polis with former farmers working in the city, today this connection is so slow that going to Rio spoils the whole day. You need a car or take the bus to work in Rio.<\/p>\n

But still I like that way of thinking. Samba seems always an easy melody but it is full of tragedy but it gives the people the will to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nil\u00f3polis had won the carnaval 3 times in a row. Now the city nearby Rio is a NEW city. Why? I am proving some of the answers inhabitants gave me there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[155,154,156,53,443,112,17,23,157],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sound-of-rio","category-rio-consumable","tag-beija-flor","tag-escola-de-samba","tag-human-development-index","tag-megalopolis","tag-nilopolis","tag-problem","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-samba","tag-samba-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ar2com.de\/radiofavela-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}