Choro A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music

Name: Choro A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music
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ISBN: 9780253217523

ISBN-10: 0253217520

ISBN-13: 9780253217523

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour, Thomas George Caracas Garcia, Tamara Elena Livingston, Tamara Elena Livingston

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Choro is a type of Brazilian popular music based on a fusion of African rhythms & structures with European instruments & dance forms.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour is University Archivist for Kennesaw State University in Georgia.Thomas George Caracas Garcia is Assistant Professor of ethnomusicology and Latin American Studies at Miami University of Ohio.




Introduction



Race, class, and nineteenth-century popular music : the Modinha, the Lundu, and the Maxixe



The Roda de Choro : heart and soul of Choro



From the plantation to the city : the rise and development of early Choro in Rio de Janeiro (1870-1920)



From the terno to the regional : the professionalization of Choro



The Velha Guarda in the New Brazil : Choro in the 1950s and 1960s



The Choro revival



Contemporary Choro