Carnival Theater : Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture.
Title:
Carnival Theater : Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture.
Author:
Remedi, Gustavo.
ISBN:
9780816690817
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Series:
Cultural Studies of the Americas
Contents:
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 -- Araca la Cana -- Falta y resto -- La reina de la Teja -- Los diablos verdes -- Los saltimbanquis -- Don Timoteo -- Anti-murga BCG -- Notes.
Abstract:
Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and specifically on the productions of the murgas, Carnival Theater is a consideration of Uruguayan society's identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the critique of national culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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