Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Carnival Theater : Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture - Gustavo Remedi

Carnival Theater

Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture

By: Gustavo Remedi, Amy Ferlazzo (Translator)

Paperback | 1 April 2004

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

Offers a new model for interpreting popular national culture through Uruguay's carnival theater troupes. 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 1960s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.

More in Acting & Theatre Studies

Saoirse : The Work, Life, and Style of Saoirse Ronan - Kaila Hale-Stern
Arthur Miller's New York : Visions of the City - Stephen Marino
Sanford Meisner On Acting : Vintage Vintage - Sanford Meisner

RRP $27.99

$20.99

25%
OFF
The Lost History of Roman Theatre - T.P. Wiseman

RRP $79.99

$65.99

18%
OFF
Boy : A Novel - Nicole Galland

Paperback

RRP $37.99

$37.75

A Little Treat : Modern Plays - Frank Murdocco
Sweetmeats : Modern Plays - Karim Khan

$39.75

Life Before You : Modern Plays - Eva Hudson
All Is But Fantasy : Modern Plays - Whitney White
A Doll's House : Student Editions - Henrik Ibsen

RRP $21.99

$20.75

An Actor Prepares : Bloomsbury Revelations - Constantin Stanislavski

RRP $34.99

$29.75

15%
OFF
Respect for Acting : Expanded Version - Uta Hagen

RRP $44.95

$35.75

20%
OFF
The Crucible : Student Editions - Arthur Miller
Shakespeare : The Man Who Pays The Rent - Dame Judi Dench

RRP $28.99

$24.75

15%
OFF
Mr. Burns and Other Plays - Anne Washburn

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF