Novas conexões, velhos associativismos: projetos sociais em escolas de samba mirins

Abstract

In communities, the transmission occurs orally. Samba is no different. Since the founding of the samba schools, children and adolescents are actively involved, along with their families, the activities of these schools, including the carnival. These children and adolescents have, for decades, their own spaces in the schools of samba: the section for children and more recently small schools of feast and standard-bearer, and participation in junior batteries, bringing the perspective of professionalism and renewal in schools and Finally, the creation, from 1980, the samba school junior, who now open the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Today there are 16 schools clustered in a specific association, mostly derived from the parent schools, bringing the shows over twenty-five thousand children and teenagers in the Friday preceding the Carnival. The Samba Schools Mirins try to insert themselves into the social policies for youth, especially the poor, for the promotion of citizenship and the revitalization of the sense of community. Founded in the oldest areas of Rio de Janeiro, especially the planning area 3 - the suburbs - where they are concentrated, these samba schools junior maintain close ties with your neighborhood, encouraging sociability, intergenerational relationships and building trust is vital to the emergence of collective efficacy and social capital development in these areas. In addition, supply the absence of recreational areas and cultural facilities such space, strengthening ties with neighbors and friends and avoiding in some way, that drug trafficking violent shred further social and cultural life of the region. In this sense, the samba schools junior contribute to the promotion of culture and Rio are as a proposal for health promotion and prevention of violence, mainly generated by drug trafficking and police repression against this scourge with a divisive character in the neighborhoods where these schools organized originally.