Joao Silva

Entertaining Lisbon

Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Entertaining Lisbon explores Portuguese entertainment as a form of negotiation between local, national, and transnational influences on identity. Connecting gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making, author Jo¿Silva investigates popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and the rise of nationalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780190215705
• ISBN-10: 0190215704
• Artikelnr.: 47863780

Autorenporträt

João Silva received his Ph.D. from Newcastle University, and is a member of INET-MD, a research center based in the Universidate Nova de Lisboa.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The long nineteenth-century in Portugal and the
transformation of Lisbon
* Chapter 2: Opera, Operetta, and Revista: Music and Entertainment in
Lisbon
* Chapter 3: Song Collection in Portugal: Between Domestic
Entertainment and Scientific Objectivity
* Chapter 4. Programs, Postcards, Coplas and Sheet Music
* Chapter 5: The mechanization of everyday life: mechanical
instruments, phonography and modernity
* Conclusions
* References
* Index