Carnival theater : Uruguay's popular performers and national culture / Gustavo Remedi ; translated by Amy Ferlazzo.
Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and specifically on the productions of the murgas, Carnival Theater is a consideration of Uruguayan societys identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book p...
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| Other title: | Murgas. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Cultural studies of the Americas ;
v. 15. |
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| Summary: | Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and specifically on the productions of the murgas, Carnival Theater is a consideration of Uruguayan societys 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published as: Murgas : el teatro de los tablados : interpretacioń y crit́ica de la cultura nacional, ©1996"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816690817 0816690812 1299914217 9781299914216 |