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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: João Silva (, INET-MD, Universidate Nova de Lisboa) , Joco SilvaPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.621kg ISBN: 9780190215705ISBN 10: 0190215704 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 03 November 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The long nineteenth-century in Portugal and the transformation of Lisbon Chapter 2: Opera, Operetta, and Revista: Music and Entertainment in Lisbon Chapter 3: Song Collection in Portugal: Between Domestic Entertainment and Scientific Objectivity Chapter 4. Programs, Postcards, Coplas and Sheet Music Chapter 5: The mechanization of everyday life: mechanical instruments, phonography and modernity Conclusions References IndexReviewsA fascinating exploration of the musical genres, recording technologies, and ideologies of modernization that stirred up Portuguese society during the last decades of monarchy. The author's command of critical theory enables a deep and engaging analysis of this crucial period of European history. --Rogerio Budasz, University of California, Riverside Joao Silva brings a keen historical eye to the objects and discourses that accompanied music and theatre in the Portuguese capital while making a persuasive case for the role of entertainment in the production of space and place. --Dr Richard Elliott, University of Sussex, author of Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City A fascinating exploration of the musical genres, recording technologies, and ideologies of modernization that stirred up Portuguese society during the last decades of monarchy. The author's command of critical theory enables a deep and engaging analysis of this crucial period of European history. --Rogerio Budasz, University of California, Riverside Joao Silva brings a keen historical eye to the objects and discourses that accompanied music and theatre in the Portuguese capital while making a persuasive case for the role of entertainment in the production of space and place. --Dr Richard Elliott, University of Sussex, author of Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City A fascinating exploration of the musical genres, recording technologies, and ideologies of modernization that stirred up Portuguese society during the last decades of monarchy. The author's command of critical theory enables a deep and engaging analysis of this crucial period of European history. --Rogerio Budasz, University of California, Riverside Joao Silva brings a keen historical eye to the objects and discourses that accompanied music and theatre in the Portuguese capital while making a persuasive case for the role of entertainment in the production of space and place. --Dr Richard Elliott, University of Sussex, author of Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City Author InformationJoão Luís Meireles Santos Leitão da Silva, Researcher at INET-MD Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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