TY  - GEN
AB  - This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina's purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina's modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day.
AU  - Garrett, Victoria Lynn.
CN  - GN562-GN564
CY  - Cham :
DA  - 2018.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-92697-1
DO  - doi
ID  - 940299
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Theater
KW  - Theater.
KW  - Culture.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-92697-1
N2  - This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina's purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina's modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day.
PB  - Springer International Publishing :
PB  - Imprint :
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan,
PP  - Cham :
PY  - 2018.
SN  - 9783319926971
SN  - 3319926977
SN  - 9783319926964
SN  - 3319926969
SN  - 9783319926988
SN  - 3319926985
SN  - 9783030064945
SN  - 3030064948
T1  - Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890-1934 /
TI  - Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890-1934 /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-92697-1
ER  -