Description
Book SynopsisExamining a range of popular cultural production, from music and dance to theater and film, this book explores how transatlantic and inter-American artistic exchanges redefined Brazilian identity, especially the perception of race.
Trade Review"Brazil's racial identity and comprehensive sense of self cannot be fully grasped without the performative transnational vantage that this book profitably adopts…Overall, the volume is attractive, the writing is consistently smooth, and the illustrations are splendid. The reading is rewarding and makes one want to know more and, tellingly, somehow to access these charged historical performances." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
"Exciting [and] readable…Shaw's research presents Rio as the culturally fluid, cosmopolitan port city it has been since the Portuguese court first arrived and as the disturbing, sad, joyous, riotous, and frenetically carnivaleque mestiço face of Brazil in good times and bad." * Hispania *
"Shaw’s forthright discussion of race and racial prejudice within [Latin America] and Europe is refreshingly honest and provides welcome examples of Afro-Brazilians who manipulated oppressive systems to claim a place within Brazilian society." * Latin American Research Review *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Afro-Brazilian Performance on Rio de Janeiro’s Popular Stages from the 1880s to the Long 1920s
- 2. The Rio de Janeiro–Paris Performance Axis in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century: Duque, the Oito Batutas, and the Question of “Race”
- 3. The Teatro de Revista in Rio de Janeiro in the Long 1920s: Transnational Dialogues and Cosmopolitan Black Performance
- 4. The Cultural Migrations of the Stage and Screen Baiana, 1889–1950s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
