presented by mneme - revista de humanidades, the study noel rosa e as transformações do samba na década de 1930,(noel rosa and the samba transformations of the 1930s), aims to consider both the problematic of the samba transformations as well as the popular musician professionalization process that took place in rio de janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century. as noel rosa made an exceptional contribution to samba music in the 1930s, the 'village poet' (poeta da vila) was taken as a reference for the analysis.