Carnival Theater: Uruguay’s Popular Performers and National Culture
ISBN: 9780816690817
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Carnival -- Uruguay; Street theater -- Uruguay; Popular culture -- Uruguay; Uruguay -- Social life and customs;

Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and specifically on the productions of the murgas, Carnival Theater is a consideration of Uruguayan societyOCOs identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the critique of national culture."


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