02985nam 22006494a 450 991045173190332120200520144314.00-8166-9081-2(CKB)1000000000346924(EBL)310661(OCoLC)476095510(SSID)ssj0000277693(PQKBManifestationID)11195996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277693(PQKBWorkID)10240765(PQKB)11785211(MiAaPQ)EBC310661(OCoLC)133167002(MdBmJHUP)muse38877(Au-PeEL)EBL310661(CaPaEBR)ebr10151224(CaONFJC)MIL522672(EXLCZ)99100000000034692420030718d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCarnival theater[electronic resource] Uruguay's popular performers and national culture /Gustavo Remedi ; translated by Amy FerlazzoMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20041 online resource (310 p.)Cultural studies of the Americas ;v. 15"Originally published as: Murgas : el teatro de los tablados : interpretacioń y crit́ica de la cultura nacional, c1996"--Verso t.p.0-8166-3455-6 0-8166-3454-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-289) and index.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; NotesFocusing 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.Cultural studies of the Americas ;v. 15.CarnivalUruguayStreet theaterUruguayPopular cultureUruguayUruguaySocial life and customsElectronic books.CarnivalStreet theaterPopular culture394.25/09895Remedi Gustavo988148MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451731903321Carnival theater2259596UNINA