Heritage Recognition in the Choro Communities: From the Rodas Encounter to Network Mobilisation
Choro is considered the first Brazilian urban music still in existence. After more than 150 years of history, this music has just been declared an intangible cultural heritage by IPHAN (the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage). The authors of this proposition coordinated the researc...
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| I publikationen: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/socrep, |
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Sociétés & représentations
2025
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | Choro is considered the first Brazilian urban music still in existence. After more than 150 years of history, this music has just been declared an intangible cultural heritage by IPHAN (the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage). The authors of this proposition coordinated the research that led to this title, an intense and widely participatory process that took place in a virtual environment during almost three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and mobilized a gigantic network of people linked to this music (chorões and choronas) from the north to south of Brazil. This is the first time that a heritage recognition process promoted by IPHAN has been completely carried out in completely virtual form. For this article, we revisit this process, its tensions and challenges, to discuss how, at the dawn of the 21st century, we needed both to contemplate the diversity of ways of playing and representing Choro in different regions of the country, and to consider it as a unique intangible cultural heritage of national stature, as advocated by IPHAN. To this end, we will discuss, on one hand, the issues that the process has brought to the policies of intangible cultural heritage in Brazil, and on the other, how the reverberation of the process has raised gender and ethnic issues within the context of Choro. |
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