BETWEEN “SPARPS AND CONFETTI”: CARNIVAL DISPUTES BETWEEN SAMBA DIPLOMATS AND POOR PEOPLE FROM CAIAIRI, DURING THE 70S AND 80S OF THE 20TH CENTURY, IN PORTO VELHO.
Carnival; Porto Velho; Amazon; Popular culture; Dispute.
: The city of Porto Velho has already hosted the best Carnival in the northern region, with large Samba School parades, in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century. Two of them, A Pobres do Caiari and Diplomatas do Samba, enchanted Carnivals for many years, through a carnival dispute that went far beyond the Avenue, it was on the lines of a social, economic and even political dispute, within the class itself. of workers, divided between residents of the first planned neighborhood in Brazil, the Caiari neighborhood, and residents of neighborhoods that came from another formation process, without higher education and without high-ranking positions in the public service, belonging to Porto Velho, which remained behind outside the dividing line. This is a quantitative research, with interviews and a focus group, with real characters who lived and experienced this dispute between the two largest carnival groups that the municipality had in the last decades of the last century. In which we use the methodology of Oral History and the techniques of Discourse Analysis, to construct data, based on the speeches of our interviewees.