The Brazilian Carnival is a annual feast, celebrated fourty days before the Easter (marking the start of a religious period, the Lent), in Brazil. It has some variances from its counterparts in Europe, as well some differences across the large territory of Brazil.

Despite the Catholic inspiration, Brazilian Carnival is celebrated more as an profane feast than an religious event. Its origins are europeans, by a kind of carnival called Introito (latin for entrance). The entrudo, as it was knowed in Brazil, was characterized mainly by an joke: to throw water (and later, other things) in other people, to "purify the body". The entrudo was prohibited in middle of the 19th Century, as it became violent (many people die from infections and other diseases, since even rotten fruits was throwed sometimes).

In the late 19th Century appeared the cordões, groups of people that used to walk on the streets playing music and dancing. The cordões were ancestors of modern Samba Schools. By contrast, it also time for the appearance of Samba club, elite spaces where the Carnival had lost his popular form.

The blocos (blocks), another evoltion of cordões, are some current representations of popular Brazilian Carnival form. They are formed by people who agree in dress costumes according an theme, or to celebrate the carnival by an specific time or manner. The Schools of Samba are truly organizations that work all year in order to prepare themselves to the Samba Schools Parade.

In some cities of Northeastern region, there are another modern form of carnival, the Trio Elétrico. Trio Elétrico is an adapted truck, with giant speakers, and a plataform where musics plays songs from rhytms like Axé music and Maracatu.