Music and humor in the urban space - The street blocks in Rio de Janeiro carnival

Music and humor in the urban space - The street blocks in Rio de Janeiro carnival

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

popular festivities

perception

urban ambiance

The use of the urban space as a scenery for popular manifestations reaches back to the origins of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival. The so-called "blocks" are groups of people who go out in greeting, to the sound of amplified music and percussion instruments. In the past decades, this type of expression multiplied exponentially, and, nowadays, hundreds of blocks occupy the city streets in the carnival period. The aim of this paper is to investigate the way the "street blocks" act on the urban ambiance and as modifiers of the perception for its inhabitants.

Niemeyer, Maria Lygia

Aventin, Catherine

Ambiances in action. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances / Ambiances en acte(s). Actes du 2nd Congrès International sur les Ambiances

Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012

2012

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00745864

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/74/58/64/PDF/ambiances2012_niemeyer_aventin.pdf

Montreal

Canada