In recent decades ceremonies stood in Olympiads as both vehicles of cultural values and shows embracing the banal and the everyday. But how much do we understand them as forms of public art? This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover event…
"Using striking visual and textual records produced for the promotion of tourism, Romo shows how Bahia, which was home to the largest port for African slaves in the Americas and continued to maintain a distinctly Afro-Brazilian demographic and culture, became one of the most pop…
In the early twentieth century, Brazil shifted from a nation intent on whitening its population to one billing itself as a racial democracy. Anadelia Romo shows that this shift centered in Salvador, Bahia, where throughout the 1950s, modernist artists and intellectuals forged cr…
Cultura política e leituras do passado: historiografia e ensino de história
by Soihet, Rachel, Seminário Cultura Política e Cultura Histórica: Pesquisa e Ensino, Universidade Federal Fluminense), Abreu, Martha, Gontijo, Rebeca, Universidade Federal Fluminense., Núcleo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura
Cultura política e leituras do passado: historiografia e ensino de história
by Soihet, Rachel, Seminário Cultura Política e Cultura Histórica: Pesquisa e Ensino, Universidade Federal Fluminense), Abreu, Martha, Gontijo, Rebeca, Universidade Federal Fluminense., Núcleo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura
