ISBN:
0816634556
,
0816634548
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 289 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultural studies of the Americas v. 15
Uniform Title:
Murgas. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Carnival Theater : Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture
DDC:
394.25/09895
Keywords:
Carnival
;
Popular culture
;
Street theater
;
Carnival ; Uruguay
;
Popular culture ; Uruguay
;
Street theater ; Uruguay
;
Uruguay ; Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
;
Uruguay Social life and customs
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
Description / Table of 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; Notes
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-289) and index
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"Originally published as: Murgas : el teatro de los tablados : interpretacioń y crit́ica de la cultura nacional, c1996"--Verso t.p
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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