at a glance

Presented by the Asociacion Cultural de Capoeira Angola, the study Noel Rosa, o feitiço de Vila Isabel - Noel Rosa, the spell of Vila Isabel by Herbet Carvalho examines the life of this historical figure. Noel de Medeiros Rosa was born, lived and died in Vila Isabel, a typical middle-class neighborhood of the North Zone of Rio, founded by the Baron of Drummond - also the inventor of the Jogo do Bicho (Animal Game) - situated between the quite rich neighborhood of Tijuca and the then poorer neighborhood of Andaraí. Presented by the Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', the study Feitiço da Vila - Um samba de Noel Rosa - The spell of Vila - A samba by Noel Rosa, by Dimas Aguiar da Silva e Anderson de Souza Zanetti da Silva, represents Noel Rosa as one of the principle figures in the union between samba and the 'asphalt' hills of Rio de Janeiro. In other words, his work marks the period in which samba began to seduce the middle classes.