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

• Autore: Remedi Gustavo
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 394.25/09895
• Soggetto topico: Carnival - Uruguay; Street theater - Uruguay; Popular culture - Uruguay
• Soggetto geografico: Uruguay Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Carnival theater
• ISBN: 0-8166-9081-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451731903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 15.