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Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival
Katherine Borland
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JHBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
Masaya, a provincial capital of Nicaragua, cultivates an aggressively traditional identity that contrasts with Managua's urban modernity. In 2001 the city was officially designated Capital of Nicaraguan Folklore, yet residents have engaged in a vibrant folk revival since at least the 1960s. This book documents the creative innovations of Masaya's performing artists. The first extended study in English of Nicaraguan festival arts, Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival is an ethnographically and historically grounded inquiry into three festival enactments during the Somoza, Sandinista, and Neoliberal periods: the carnivalesque torovenado masquerades, the transvestite Negras marimba dances, and the wagon ... Read more
Masaya, a provincial capital of Nicaragua, cultivates an aggressively traditional identity that contrasts with Managua's urban modernity. In 2001 the city was officially designated Capital of Nicaraguan Folklore, yet residents have engaged in a vibrant folk revival since at least the 1960s. This book documents the creative innovations of Masaya's performing artists. The first extended study in English of Nicaraguan festival arts, Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival is an ethnographically and historically grounded inquiry into three festival enactments during the Somoza, Sandinista, and Neoliberal periods: the carnivalesque torovenado masquerades, the transvestite Negras marimba dances, and the wagon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816525119
SKU
V9780816525119
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