Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race

by Lisa Shaw

Book Overview

Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits--inter-American and transatlantic--from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for cultural production in France, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. These transnational exchanges also helped construct new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477312781
• ISBN13: 9781477312780
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"