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Contracultura
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Contracultura

Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship erupted under even the most oppressive political conditions. Dunn reveals...

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy takes an unprecedented comparative analysis approach to the complex relationship between popular music and culture, society, and politics in Latin America as it relates to representations of national identity. Tânia da Costa Garcia analyzes archival research in Chile, Brazil and Argentina, which have very similar cultural and political processes. This book is divided into two different parts: the first focuses on how the folk studies movement was legitimized in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina; while the second emphasizes the rich history of how the militant song movement in Spanish America was received, transformed, and transmitted to Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be especially useful to scholars of Latin American studies, music studies, cultural studies, and history.

A Present Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

A Present Past

The events related to the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship (1964-85) have become common currency in the recent public debate in Brazil. The issue is especially strategic to the extreme right-wing groups surrounding Jair Bolsonaro, the president elected in 2018. For them, the 1964 coup is cherished and celebrated, marking defeat of the left and the beginning of a political regime oriented towards order and progress. The political project built around Bolsonaro is an attempt to impose a distorted and Manichean view of recent history, both by discourse and attempts of censorship. According to that view, 1964 was not a coup detat, but a revolution that saved Brazilians from communism. In ...

Depositions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Depositions

“Burle Marx created a new and modern grammar for international landscape design.” —Lauro Cavalcanti, quoted in the New York Times “The real creator of the modern garden.” —American Institute of Architects Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) is internationally known as one of the preeminent modernist landscape architects. He designed renowned public landscapes in Brazil, beginning with small plazas in Recife in the 1930s and culminating with large public parks in the early 1960s, most significantly the Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. Depositions explores a pivotal moment in Burle Marx’s career—the years in which he served as a member of the Federal Cultural Council created ...

A singularidade está próxima
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 695

A singularidade está próxima

Ray Kurzweil (n. 1948) é cientista da computação, inventor e aquilo que a terminologia atual, ignora dos usos consolidados deste termo, designa como “futurista”. Autor de best- sellers, recebeu vários títulos de doutor honoris causa por diferentes universidades. Sua tese é que na primeira metade deste século XXI a inteligência artificial superará, de longe, a humana — e a singularidade terá acontecido. Essa inteligência superior será indistinguível da humana: conversando (sem aspas) com um interlocutor situado no lado de lá de uma parede, um humano não saberá se fala com outro humano ou com uma máquina. As consequências desse desenvolvimento exponencial da computaçã...

Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities.

Art - The Path To Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Art - The Path To Knowledge

A university must produce and organize knowledge. Indeed, this fact does not seem to suffer disputes. However, what is the knowledge that a university produces and disseminates? In this short essay, which serves as a conceptual basis for a wide-ranging epistemological discussion, the authors propose questions about knowledge, whose answers have been sought by the contemporary academy. However, the research is more focused on questions than on answers. The important thing is to ask the right questions. We invite the members of the academic community to participate in this theoretical reflection on knowledge, in order to support our research activities, extension, teaching and graduate studies...

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 817

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation. Each chapter discusses and reframe current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed embrace politics of the...

Interlocuções entre cultura, trabalho e economia/Conversations between culture, work and economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Interlocuções entre cultura, trabalho e economia/Conversations between culture, work and economy

A concepção desta organização é resultado do encontro de docentes, discentes e parceiros de pesquisa que vêm se dedicando a discutir o papel da cultura e do trabalho daqueles que atuam neste setor da economia capitalista, tendo por base dados empíricos e análise de políticas culturais no Brasil.The concept of this book is the outcome of a series of meetings between teachers, students and fellow researchers who have dedicated themselves to discussing the role of culture and the work of those who act within this sector of the capitalist economy, based on empirical data and an analysis of cultural policies in Brazil.

Cultura e Economia
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 158

Cultura e Economia

Durante muito tempo os economistas negligenciaram a cultura e por muito tempo o setor cultural também se desinteressou da reflexão econômica. Vivemos o fim dessa época. Para os atores do setor cultural, as ferramentas econômicas podem se tornar uma base sólida de desenvolvimento; para os tomadores de decisões, a contribuição da cultura para a economia do conhecimento abre oportunidades originais de ação; para os cidadãos, trata-se de ter meios para compreender e defender um setor cujo valor simbólico e o potencial de riqueza humana e econômica não podem mais ser ignorados.