Choro em Brasília: música, comida e bebida em um processo de reconstrução de identidades

Roda de Choro, a musical practice historically based on music, food and drink, constituting an ambience of great affection and relaxation, within the scope of this work, integrated a process of identity reconstruction in Brasília, a modernist city, resulting from an extremely rationalized and functional project. In view of its peculiarities and this context, the Roda de Choro could be approached using the symbolic as a support, that is, perceived as a ritual proposing an “another possibility of life” for migrants who found strange the newly built modernist city they came to occupy, as an opportunity they had to change the rules imposed by the social order and architecture, that enforced behaviors