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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451731903321

Autore

Remedi Gustavo

Titolo

Carnival theater [[electronic resource] ] : Uruguay's popular performers and national culture / / Gustavo Remedi ; translated by Amy Ferlazzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8166-9081-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 15

Disciplina

394.25/09895

Soggetti

Carnival - Uruguay

Street theater - Uruguay

Popular culture - Uruguay

Electronic books.

Uruguay Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as: Murgas : el teatro de los tablados : interpretacioń y crit́ica de la cultura nacional, c1996"--Verso t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 1970's. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the critique of national culture.