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Author:

Silva, João, 1980- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016005414

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

x, 324 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Musical theater--History--Lisbon--Lisbon--History--19th century.
Music--Lisbon--Lisbon--19th century--History and criticism.
Lisbon (Portugal)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Nationalism in music.
Fados--Portugal--History and criticism.
Music trade--History--Lisbon--Lisbon--History--19th century.
Sound recordings--History--Lisbon--Lisbon--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Currents in Latin America & Iberian music

ISBN:

0190215704
9780190215705

OCLC:

(OCoLC)937999181

LCCN:

2016004796

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)