{"product_id":"tropical-travels-brazilian-popular-performance-transnational-encounters-and-the-construction-of-race-hardcover","title":"Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrazilian 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 ideas about, and representations of, \"racial\" identity in Brazil. \u003ci\u003eTropical Travels\u003c\/i\u003e fruitfully examines how perceptions of \"race\" were negotiated within popular performance in Rio de Janeiro and how these issues engaged with wider transnational trends during the period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLisa Shaw analyzes how local cultural forms were shaped by contact with imported performance traditions and transnational vogues in Brazil, as well as by the movement of Brazilian performers overseas. She focuses specifically on samba and the maxixe in Paris between 1910 and 1922, \u003ci\u003eteatro de revista\u003c\/i\u003e (the Brazilian equivalent of vaudeville) in Rio in the long 1920s, and a popular Brazilian female archetype, the \u003ci\u003ebaiana\u003c\/i\u003e, who moved to and fro across national borders and oceans. Shaw demonstrates that these transnational encounters generated redefinitions of Brazilian identity through the performance of \"race\" and ethnicity in popular culture. Shifting the traditional focus of Atlantic studies from the northern to the southern hemisphere, \u003ci\u003eTropical Travels\u003c\/i\u003e also contributes to a fuller understanding of inter-hemispheric cultural influences within the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLISA SHAW is a reader in Portuguese and Brazilian studies at the University of Liverpool. She has authored or edited seven previous books, including \u003ci\u003eCarmen Miranda\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Social History of the Brazilian Samba\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 246\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959990153523,"sku":"9781477312780","price":169.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/3-y5W9WrM_9781477312780.webp?v=1768474513","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/tropical-travels-brazilian-popular-performance-transnational-encounters-and-the-construction-of-race-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}