The 1939 World’s Fair cemented the American love affair with samba when the music and dance was featured in the Brazilian pavilion. Today, the many iterations of samba are a mainstay of pre-Lenten carnival in Rio De Janeiro and of Latin ballroom dancing everywhere. Now it’s a solo dance, a couple’s dance, a street-dancing exhibition, and a hybrid, merged with rock, acrobatics, and even reggae.
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