This Brazil­ian dance was first intro­duced in 1917 but was finally adopted by Brazil­ian soci­ety in 1930 as a ball­room dance. It is some­times referred to as a Samba, Car­i­oca, a Baion or a Batu­cado. The dif­fer­ence is mostly in the tempo played since the steps in all three dance are very sim­i­lar. The style is to bounce steadily and smoothly in 2/4 meter. They say that the Samba was intro­duced in the United States in 1939 by the late Car­men Miranda.