Discourses on American Musical Theatre between So Paulo and New York: Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Discourses on American Musical Theatre between So Paulo and New York: Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
By (Author) Bernardo Fonseca Machado
Translated by Philip Badiz
Translated by David Rodgers
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
7th February 2022
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Theatre studies
782.14097471
Physical Properties
Hardback
152
Width 162mm, Height 228mm, Spine 19mm
413g
Description
In this book, Bernardo Fonseca Machado examines the transnationalization of American Broadway and the resulting cultural exchanges between New York and So Paulo at the turn of the twenty-first century. Machado combines ethnography and history to track the complexities of discourses, imaginaries, and economic interests within the flow of musical people, capital, practices, pedagogies, and shows between these two cities.
Reviews
In this lively and fascinating book, Bernardo Fonseca Machado takes readers from New York City to So Paulo, from theatre training schools to audition rooms to explore the interchange between US Broadway musicals and Brazilian theatre culture. Using a range of historical, archival, critical, and ethnographic methods, Machado paints a nuanced and complex picture of the lives of Brazilian students, professors, performers, and directors living in the United States. This book is an important, illuminating, and original addition to the field of global musical theatre studies.
-- Stacy E. Wolf, Princeton UniversityAuthor Bio
Bernardo Fonseca Machado is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Campinas and researcher at the So Paulo Research Foundation.
