Culture Wars in Brazil - The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945

"Culture Wars in Brazil" is an important book. Historians tend to neglect Brazilian cultural history, and Williams takes a significant step toward diminishing that lacunae. His writing is dramatic and exciting, his research wide-ranging and creative, and he has uncovered much fascinating material."--Jeffrey Lesser, author of "Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil"

List of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Brazilian Republic, Getúlio Vargas, and Metaphors of War

1. The Vargas Era and Culture Wars
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2. Cultural Management before 1930

3. Cultural Management, 1930–1945

4. “The Identity Documents of the Brazilian Nation”: The National Historical and Artistic Patrimony

5. Museums and Memory

6. Expositions and “Export Quality” Culture

Conclusion: Who Won? National Culture Under Vargas

Biographical Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Daryle Williams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland.

Summary

Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and citizens over the state's power to regulate and consecrate the field of cultural production, the author argues that the struggles over cultural management fought between the Revolution of 1930 and the fall of the Estado Novo dictatorship.

Product details

• Authors: Daryle Williams, Williams, Daryle Williams
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2001
• EAN: 9780822327080
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2708-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 239 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 694 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Brasilien, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte