Music in Imperial Rio De Janeiro : European Culture in a Tropical Milieu

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