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Item Details
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PRIMITIVE MODERNITIES
TANGO, SAMBA, AND NATION |
| By: |
Florencia Garramuno |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£108.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
080476249X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804762496 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 August, 2011 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
Primitive Modernities traces how the changing meaning of the primitive enabled the transformation of tango and samba-music considered primitive and marginal into art forms that symbolized the nations of Argentina and Brazil. |
| Synopsis: |
Primitive Modernities invites us to reconsider the boundaries that usually separate popular culture from the culture of the elite. It focuses on the cultural network that enabled popular music-tango and samba-to transform into national and modern forms. The origin of tango and samba is considered primitive, marginal. Yet in the early decades of the twentieth century, they each came to symbolize a nation: Argentina and Brazil, respectively. Garramuno analyzes the aesthetic and ideological processes that enabled this transformation.Starting with the late nineteenth century, the author traces the changing meanings of the "primitive" in art, from savage and exotic to being linked to the modern. She considers not only music, but also painting, poetry, novels, essays, and films. Indeed, Garramuno understands culture as fundamentally a space of differences. In this sense, the book is also a reconsideration of the field of comparativism and of Brazil's place in Latin American Studies. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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