presented by universidade federal fluminense, the study o subúrbio feliz do pagode carioca (the happy suburb of 'pagode carioca') written by felipe da costa trotta and luciana xavier de oliveira, discusses how the musical genres of pagode and samba deal with the idea of happiness - the paper talks about how the birth of pagode romântico (romantic pagode) in the early 90s was used as an instrument to eliminate some of the samba polyrhythms with the aim of producing a 'cleaner' and more 'direct' song.

here is a list of venues one can visit to dance to the pagode sound on a saturday.