Performing Brazil
Subtitle: essays on culture, identity, and the performing arts
By: edited by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780299300647; 9780299300630
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Performing arts; Dance; Brazilian Arts; Brazilians; Ethnic identity; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: why Performing Brazil? / Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez; title: On the (im)possibility of performing Brazil / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez; title: Biting the meat, spitting it out: twenty-first-century cannibalism / Fernando de Sousa Rocha; title: Performing Brazilianness through dance: the case of Grupo Corpo / Cristina F. Rosa; title: Staging capoeira, samba, maculele, and candomble: Viva Bahia's choreographies of Afro-Brazilian folklore for the global stage / Ana Paula Hofling; title: Global identities of capoeira and the berimbau: keeping it Brazilian overseas / Eric Galm; title: Performing cultural visibility: Brazilian immigrants, Mardi Gras, and New Orleans / Annie Gibson; title: Mauricio Einhorn: musical crossings / Bryan McCann; title: Playing with realism(s): narrating the Morro through performance and the visual arts / Lidia Santos; title: The bi-cultural sex symbol: Sonia Braga in Brazilian and North American popular culture / Benjamin Legg; title: Body language and embodied spaces: performing the public and the private in Arnaldo Antunes's Nome / Alessandra Santos; title: Post-periphery performances: reclaiming artistic legacies, histories, and archives / Simone Osthoff; title: Performative devices in Clarice Lispector's texts / Maria Jose Somerlate Barbosa.