Entertaining Lisbon : music, theater, and modern life in the late 19th century

Entertaining Lisbon : music, theater, and modern life in the late 19th century / João Silva.

Entertaining Lisbon explores Portuguese entertainment as a form of negotiation between local, national, and transnational influences on identity. Connecting gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making, author João Silva investigates...

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Main Author: Silva, João (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Musical theater > Social aspects > Portugal > Lisbon > History > 19th century.
Music > Portugal > Lisbon > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nationalism in music.
Fados > Portugal > History and criticism.
Music trade > Social aspects > Portugal > Lisbon > History > 19th century.
Sound recordings > Social aspects > Portugal > Lisbon > History > 19th century.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Fados
Manners and customs
Music
Nationalism in music
Sound recordings > Social aspects
Lisbon (Portugal) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Portugal
Portugal > Lisbon
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The long nineteenth-century in Portugal and the transformation of Lisbon
  • Opera, operetta, and revista : music and entertainment in Lisbon
  • Song collection in Portugal : between domestic entertainment and scientific objectivity
  • Programs, postcards, coplas and sheet music
  • The mechanization of everyday life : mechanical instruments, phonography and modernity.

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