Monteiro e Chico Spinoza — fez o público das arquibancadas mover-se ao ritmo de sua marcante bateria;
no ano seguinte, 1993, o Salgueiro, com o antológico
Peguei um ita no norte, de Mário Borriello, fecha a
primeira década-sambódromo.
T
hey will end up Praça Onze / There won’t
be samba school, there won’t be / Cry the
small tambourine / Cry the whole hill / Favela, Salgueiro / Mangueira, First Station / Put away
your tambourines, put away / Because the samba
school won’t go out. These lyrics were composed by
Herivelto Martins and Grande Othelo. They referred
to the carnival manifestations’ first place, in the years
1920. Afterwards the parades started happening at Rio
Branco, Presidente Vargas, Presidente Antônio Carlos and Marquês de Sapucaí Avenues, up to the year
1983. On March 3, 1984 Sambódromo was opened.
The term “Sambódromo” was created by anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, main mentor of the project developed by architect Oscar Niemeyer by request from
Leonel Brizola, then Rio de Janeiro State governor.
There began the so called gargantuan size of the “super samba schools with their super allegories” parades,
The visionary composers Beto Sem Braço (Armless Albert) and Aloísio Machado already envisaged this behavior change in the samba theme Bumbum praticumbum
prugurundum, of Império Serrano, 1982 Carnival champion. There is no doubt, however, that Sambódromo
brought not only organization to Rio de Janeiro’s samba
schools parades but also provided more comfort to the
public who watches the show from the grandstands.
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For those who lived then, 1980 decade was marked
by important facts not only regarding Carnival with apotheosis-like parades, with great participation from the public, but also manifestations for democracy anticipation,
civic furor favoring the economic development recovering path, social and educational reforms and popular
culture wide open liberalization.
In the same year that Mangueira became the first
champion of the new samba catwalk with the samba
theme “Yes, we have Braguinha”, of carnival-man
Max Lopes, Brazil stopped
to watch the greatest march held by the Diretas Já
(Direct elections now) movement. About 1,7 million
people took São Paulo’s
downtown main streets to
demand the right to choose the Republic President
by direct voting. This mobilization was a milestone
of the Brazilian society that managed to untie itself
from the ruling political regime to, at last, take a
step towards democracy. After the political rally at
Anhangabaú Valley the movement spread throughout the country. In 1985 Fernando Pinto gave the
championship to Mocidade Independente de Padre
Miguel with “Ziriguidum 2001”. A futuristic theme,
projecting next century’s Carnival. The following
year Mangueira was champion again with “Caymmi
shows to the world what Bahia and Mangueira have”,
of carnival-man Júlio Mattos, who would conquer the