December 2015
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Intercom Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação
Samba and pagode are musical practices that deal frequently with the idea of happiness. Through the tambourine beat and other instruments that shape its characteristic sound, the imagination of a certain popular culture evokes in a positive way the lifestyle of popular classes, through a narrative of joy, community meetings and happiness. From a bibliographical research and an analysis of repertory related to what we classify as pagode carioca, a hegemonic samba style that achieved a high cultural circulation in music market since the mid-1990s, we try to understand how this contemporary musical production consolidates the construction and reaffirmation of a "popular" stereotype, linked to the valuation of certain peripheral geographical areas (the hill, the slum suburb) and to a project of happiness of the popular classes.