The Samba de Roda is an Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestation present in the entire state of Bahia and occurs predominantly in the Recôncavo region. In 2004, the Samba de Roda of Recôncavo Baiano was inscribed in the register of Forms of Expression as a good of Brazilian intangible heritage and in 2005 it was proclaimed as the masterpiece of the oral and immaterial heritage of humanity by Unesco. In the IPHAN registration dossier a 'minimum definition' is presented to synthesize what is the samba de roda: "it is a meeting that can be fixed in the calendar or not, of a group of people for the performance of a musical repertoire And choreographic". Some basic, though variable, characteristics are the willingness of circle participants, the wheel; The umbigada, "cultural trait of Bantu origin", in which the one who is dancing calls another person to enter the roda through the clash of navels; The dance of the small, dance step very short, the singing of soloists and choir responding and the use of some remarkable instruments like the viola, or machete, the tambourine, and the plate and knife.

The Recôncavo is a large region that concentrates around the bay of all the saints, encompassing several Counties. The cities of Santo Amaro and Cachoeira are two of the most famous in the region and it was on this second that Djalma Correa was in the 1970s, doing his research and audiovisual record.

Of great cultural relevance many researchers, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, folklorists, etc have already studied samba de roda. Across the region, there are several groups that present with each other innumerable variations, there is no definite time for its realization, but it has great occurrence in the festivals of popular Catholicism, as is the case of the feast of Our Lady of Good Death in Cachoeira, In August. It was precisely in these celebrations of the year 1973 that Djalma recorded the samba de roda of the one that occurs in the last three days of the party. The Brotherhood of the Good Death of Cachoeira, at the time commanded by Narcisa Cândida Conceição "Filhinha", is a society of black women, that exists for more than 200 years that has among its main mission to ensure the continuity of the feast of the Good Death. Religious festival of great expression in the region that celebrates the assumption of Mary.

In the entire region, the samba is divided in two main types the samba corrido and the samba chula or barravento. In the region of Cachoeira is used the term barravento. The samba de roda that takes place in the party is of a type that, has among its main characteristics, singing and dancing happening at different times. Only when the song ends, when the instruments like the viola solo, that the Bahians enter the circle, one by one. In the samba recorded in 1973. The soloist takes the verses and the choir responds, the women accompany the rhythm with small blocks of wood. The men play the viola, the guitar, the cavaquinho, tambourines and atabaques. The choreography is simple, beating the foot in front of the companion chosen to sambar in the center of the wheel, instead of the traditional one emblazoned.

Another samba recorded by Djalma at the same time in Cachoeira was the group Samba de Roda de Suerdieck. Created in the 1950s by Dalva Damiana de Freitas, who was then working at the Suerdieck Cigar Factory, a factory founded by German immigrants who settled in the region at a time when the tobacco industry was flourishing.