Paula Robison encore at one of her 92nd Street Y concerts, a dance for flute and pandeiro, a large tambourine traditional in Brazil. Silverman invited the percussionist Cyro Baptista to join her. The flutist Irna Priore, who was at the concert, told her that in Brazil there was a huge repertory for flute in the choro, a tradition of popular song originating in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Cyro Baptista's wife provided recordings and tapes of music that was largely unknown in the US. Robison began to work on it with Baptista and other Brazilian musicians, who toured with her and eventually
Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil twenty-first century. McCann explores the links between the growth of the culture industry, rapid industrialization, and the rise and fall of Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo dictatorship. He does this by analyzing the political effect on radio and music as well as the link between culture and national identity to the music created and produced. Composer Lamartine Babo along with musician are two of the many credited for helping turn the musical and popular culture tide in Brazil. Their Afro-Brazilian fusion of music as well as performance style for the radio and other audiences cements popular culture for years to come.