Samba is a musical genre, from which it derives from a type of dance, with African roots, emerged in Brazil and considered one of the main Brazilian popular cultural manifestations. Among its original characteristics, it has a form in which the dance is accompanied by small melodic phrases and choruses created anonymously, foundations of the samba de roda born in the Recôncavo Baiano. also in Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco and São Paulo), in the form of various rhythms and popular regional dances that originated from batuque, samba as a musical genre is understood as an urban musical expression of Rio de Janeiro, then capital of Imperial Brazil, where it arrived during the second half of the 19th century, taken by blacks from the Bahian hinterland.
