Opera in the Tropics Music and Theater in Early Modern Brazil
vernacular operas and entremezes during the colonial period, as well as the Italian operas that celebrated the new independent nation in 1822. A Brazilian producer claimed in 1825 that the goal of music-theater was to instruct, entertain, and distract the population. Budasz argues that this
threefold goal had in fact been present throughout the colonial period, in different combinations and with different purposes, at the hands of missionaries, intellectuals, bureaucrats, political leaders, and cultural producers. While Budasz demonstrates a continuity from Portuguese theatrical
practices, primarily through the circulation of artists and repertory, he also examines a number of localized departures from the metropolitan model, particularly in the ethnic and gender profile of theatrical workers, in the modifications determined by local tastes, priorities, and materials, and
in the political use of theater as an ideological and civilizing tool within the paradoxical context of a slave society. An eye-opening narrative of the transformations and uses of a colonial art form, Opera in the Tropics will be essential reading for all interested in the music and theater in
Iberian and Latin American culture.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | MUS |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190215828 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190215828 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.93" H x 00.06" L x 30.00" W |
Page Count | 504 |
Rogrio Budasz is a musicologist specialized on Luso-Brazilian musical theater, Afro-Iberian musical connections, and early plucked instruments. His research focuses on the Atlantic circulation of musicians and repertories and issues of ethnicity, power, and cultural reconfiguration. He has
published three books, several book chapters, and many articles in international venues.