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samba
With its throbbing vitality, the best known Brazilian dance and music. Its music with its 2/4 signature (with a "more defined accent on strong beats and a more frequent pattern of responsorial singing" -- Appleby 1983:112) began around World War I in the slums of Rio, borrowing the choro syncopation. The blacks of Bahia brought the embryonic samba to Rio where at the house of a Baiana known fondly as Aunt Ciata it melded with western rhythms (Brazilian rhythms like the maxixe). The early big names in samba are Noel Rosa, Bide and Marcal, and the people's poet Cartola.