Performing Brazil : essays on culture, identity, and the performing arts / edited by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albuquerque, Severino João Medeiros, editor.

Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Brazil.

Performing arts.

Dance--Brazil.

Dance.

Brazilians.

Ethnicity.

Brazil.

Arts, Brazilian.

Brazilians--Ethnic identity.

Brazil--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

vi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction: why Performing Brazil? / Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez

On the (im)possibility of performing Brazil / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez

Biting the meat, spitting it out: twenty-first-century cannibalism / Fernando de Sousa Rocha

Performing Brazilianness through dance: the case of Grupo Corpo / Cristina F. Rosa

Staging capoeira, samba, maculele, and candomble: Viva Bahia's choreographies of Afro-Brazilian folklore for the global stage / Ana Paula Hofling

Global identities of capoeira and the berimbau: keeping it Brazilian overseas / Eric Galm

Performing cultural visibility: Brazilian immigrants, Mardi Gras, and New Orleans / Annie Gibson

Mauricio Einhorn: musical crossings / Bryan McCann

Playing with realism(s): narrating the Morro through performance and the visual arts / Lidia Santos

The bi-cultural sex symbol: Sonia Braga in Brazilian and North American popular culture / Benjamin Legg

Body language and embodied spaces: performing the public and the private in Arnaldo Antunes's Nome / Alessandra Santos

Post-periphery performances: reclaiming artistic legacies, histories, and archives / Simone Osthoff

Performative devices in Clarice Lispector's texts / Maria Jose Somerlate Barbosa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299300647

0299300641

OCLC:

874835375

Publisher Number:

99961350504