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Entertaining Lisbon - Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century (Hardcover)
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Entertaining Lisbon - Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century (Hardcover)
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material
improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of
a significant political transformation - the establishment of the
Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and
innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities
for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms
of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater. These
theatrical forms became an important site for the display of
modernity, and the representation of a new national identity.
Author Joao Silva argues that the rise of these genres is
inextricably bound to the complex process through which the idea of
Portugal was presented, naturalized, and commodified as a modern
nation-state. Entertaining Lisbon studies popular entertainment in
Portugal and its connections with modern life and nation-building,
showing that the promotion of the nation through entertainment
permeated the market for cultural goods. Exploring the Portuguese
entertainment market as a reflection of ongoing negotiations
between local, national, and transnational influences on identity,
Silva intertwines representations of gender, class, ethnicity, and
technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic
music making. An essential work on Portuguese music in the English
language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and
students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and
theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists,
cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in
the development of material culture.
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