Livingston-Isenhour, Tamara Elena.

Choro : a social history of a Brazilian popular music / Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005. - xv, 254 pages : illusrations ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) - Profiles in popular music .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237), discography (p. [239]-243), and index.

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 -- Choro and the Brazilian classical tradition.

0253345413 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253217520 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Choros--History and criticism.
Popular instrumental music--History and criticism.--Brazil
Dance music--History and criticism.--Brazil

ML3487.B7 / L58 2005

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