Dissonant Voices in Carnival: The Samba-Enredo of Eduardo Medrado and Kleber Rodrigues

Abstract

This article focuses on the works of Eduardo Medrado and Kleber Rodrigues, composers whose aesthetic project has been to open new paths into the music of samba schools. Based on the thoughts of Jonathan Stock, Jesse Ruskin and Timothy Rice on realizing ethnomusicological studies of the individual, I intend to understand the role of this partnership in the context of Rio de Janeiro’s contemporary carnival, identify the melodic and harmonic procedures used in their compositions, and measure the extent of their role of reacting not only to the current model of samba-enredo, but also to the very power structures of the samba schools.

Keywords

• Etnomusicologia do indivíduo. Carnaval. Escolas de samba. Samba-enredo.