Raphael Rabello's Brazilian School of Choro in Brasília: a case study in the well-succeeded musical preservation

This work is part of a wider inquiry on the formation of the artistic field in Brasilia, which tries to establish the elements of the sentimental education process of the federal capital artists. It focuses the development and the acceptance of choro as a musical genre in a context of contemporaneity and in a city already known as the national capital of rock and roll. The paper shows how traditional musical elements were combined to transform the School of Choro of Brasilia in a well-succeeded case of musical education. It inserts the history of this musical genre in the specificities of the artistic creation of the city and it compares its prominence with the one of other areas of cultural creation. It discusses if it would, indeed, have a specific way to play choro and it presents a synthesis of the careers of some of its most famous representatives. Finally, it presents some conclusions regarding the assumption that, in spite of its short existence (47 years), the federal capital would already become a true "factory of talents" and regarding the role of the School of Choro in the confirmation or rejection of this statement.