Performing Brazil : Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts / edited by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn, editor of compilation.

Albuquerque, Severino João Medeiros, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazilians--Ethnic identity.

Brazilians.

Arts, Brazilian.

Dance--Brazil.

Dance.

Performing arts--Brazil.

Performing arts.

Brazil--Civilization.

Brazil.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin ; London, England : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms, Performing Brazil is the first book to bring together studies of the many and varied manifestations of Brazilian performance in and beyond their country of origin. Arguing that diverse forms of performance are best understood when presented in tandem, it offers new takes on better-known forms, such as carnival and capoeira, as well as those studied less often, including gender acts, curatorial practice, political protest, and the performance of Brazil in the United States.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299300630

0299300633

OCLC:

902701993