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Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rog�rio Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese 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.
Sommario
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- 1. Foundations
- 2. The Craft of Portuguese Opera
- 3. Musical Sources and Archives
- 4. Venues
- 5. People
- 6. Uses
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Abbreviations, Currency Chart, Glossary
- Appendix 2: List of numbers in Demofonte (pasticcio, c1780)
- Appendix 3: Chronology 1565-1807
- Appendix 3: Chronology 1808-1822
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
Rogério 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.
Riassunto
Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from early colonial times to the first decades of the nineteenth century.
Testo aggiuntivo
An important read for students of Brazilian opera as well as readers interested in learning about theatrical life in the Atlantic world.
