Entertaining Lisbon: Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century

by Joaao Silva and Joco Silva

During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190215704
• ISBN13: 9780190215705
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"