{"product_id":"carnival-theater-gustavo-remedi-9780816634552","title":"Carnival Theater: Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture Volume 15","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffers a new model for interpreting popular national culture through Uruguay's carnival theater troupes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedi's \u003ci\u003eCarnival Theater\u003c\/i\u003e 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 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gustavo Remedi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816634556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816634552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.90w x 0.65d","brand":"Gustavo Remedi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438020473087,"sku":"9780816634552","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f34fcb1-3a4f-48c4-a170-17cd75a904e6.jpg?v=1777168258","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carnival-theater-gustavo-remedi-9780816634552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}