Samba’s origins on book

Researcher Carlos Sandroni is releasing the book Feitiço Decente, trough the publishing house Jorge Zahar (on association with UFRJ - the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). The volume makes a reconstitution of the beginning of samba, from its roots - the music brought from Africa by slaves, which would crystallize in the 19th century - to the 1930’s, with the consolidation of Noel Rosa’s and Wilson Batista’s urban samba. The book also reports the legendary meetings at Tia Ciata’s house, in the first decades of the 20th century, where artists like Sinhô and Heitor dos Prazeres contributed to forge the samba.