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University of Minnesota Press
- Carnival Theater: Uruguay’s Popular Performers and National Culture
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas
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The murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideo’s Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguay’s capital city each year. Throughout the period of Uruguay’s subjection to a brutal dictatorship and in the following era of “democratization,” the murgas, envisioned originally as popular theater, were transformed into a symbol of social resistance, celebrated by many and perceived by others as menacing and subversive.
Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedi’s Carnival Theater is a deeply thoughtful consideration of Uruguayan society’s identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the authoritarian-bureaucratic-technocratic regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.
Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedi’s Carnival Theater is a deeply thoughtful consideration of Uruguayan society’s identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the authoritarian-bureaucratic-technocratic regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- 4. Bodies, Costumes, and Characters
- pp. 128-151
- Conclusion: From the Garden of the Comparsas
- pp. 177-180
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816690817
Related ISBN(s)
9780816634552
MARC Record
OCLC
133167002
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No