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Article: Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music.(Book review)
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- Latin American Music Review
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- March 22, 2008
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TAMARA ELENA LIVINGSTON-ISENHOUR and THOMAS GEORGE CARACAS GARCIA. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music. 2005. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Brazilian choro shares much with its more markedly Afro-Brazilian relative samba, which eclipses the largely instrumental genre in the national and international spotlight. Both begin to emerge during the Brazilian belle epoque, their respective mixtures of African and European musical elements celebrated by the New Republic in the 1930s as representative of the nation's foundational racial and cultural mixture. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music by Tamara Elena ...