Festa popular e identidade nacional nos dois lados do Atlântico durante o século XX

Abstract

This text reflects on the relationship between national identity and popular feast in Brazil and Portugal during the 20 th century, from a comparative analysis of two nuclear cultural events: the samba schools’ parade in Rio de Janeiro and the popular marches of Lisbon. The exercise, held in a relevant set of studies on each of the cases, is justified by the substantive set of similarities both in the historical process, the content, the structure, and the organization of those urban popular parades. In it we noted the importance of the dictatorial periods for construction and urban centrality of these parties.