Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro European

This book focuses on the relationship of European music to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It shows European Music as a powerful force in the internal processes of political, cultural, social, and ethnic negotiations during the government of Emperor Pedro II and will make an excellent addition to the library of amateur and professional Latin American Historians, musicologists, and enthusiasts.

Cristina Magaldi is assistant professor of music at Towson State University. She holds degrees in music from the University of Brasilia; the University of Reading, England; and the University of California, Los Angeles

List of Illustrations and Musical Examples

v

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Culture of Imitation

ix

A New World Empire

xv

1 Imperial Rio de Janeiro Musical Milieu

1

(34)

Via Paris

1

(5)

Brilliant Immigrants

6

(2)

The Magic Mirror

8

(4)

The Theater

12

(10)

Concerts

22

(5)

Too Much to Do

27

(8)

2 Embracing Opera

35

(30)

A Tale of Isoldes and Otellos

35

(1)

A Place to See and Be Seen

36

(3)

Italian Opera via Paris

39

(3)

A Local Tradition

42

(6)

Competing Crazes

48

(2)

Paying for Opera

50

(5)

Operatic Subculture

55

(10)

3 Music for the Elite

65

(32)

A Special Mystique

65

(5)

Club Mozart

70

(3)

Club Beethoven

73

(5)

A Dream Comes True

78

(7)

Imported Music Criticism

85

(12)

4 Music, Satire, and Politics

97

(38)

An International Musical Phenomenon

97

(3)

The Infernal Dance

100

(5)

The Final Number

105

(8)

The Operetta Model

113

(6)

Musical Reviews

119

(5)

The Politics of Representation

124

(11)

5 The National, the European, the Local, and the Foreign

135

(32)

Foreign Music as a National Symbol

135

(7)

Imported Musical Nationalism

142

(5)

Exotic National Music

147

(1)

Singing in Portuguese

148

(5)

A Flexible Border

153

(14)

Bibliography

167

(10)

Index

177

(10)

About the Author

187

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Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro European Culture in a Tropical Milieu

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