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Carnival theater : Uruguay's popular performers and national culture /

Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and specifically on the productions of the murgas, Carnival Theater is a consideration of Uruguayan societys identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Remedi, Gustavo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
Series:Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 15.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Metaphors for Approaching National Culture; Acknowledgments; 1. The Interpretation of National Culture from the Site of Popular Cultural Practice; 2. To Open Up the Night: Carnival and the Struggle for a National, Democratic, and Popular Order; 3. Theology of Carnival: The Religious Masks of Carnivalesque Theater; 4. Bodies, Costumes, and Characters; 5. Carnival Celebrates the National Popular Epic; Conclusion: From the Garden of the Comparsas; Appendix: Librettos of Principal Murgas from the Montevideo Carnival, 1988; Notes.