Carnival and Culture: Sex, Symbol, and Status in Spain (National Gallery Catalogues)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0300074808
ISBN 13
9780300074802
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Publication Year
1998
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Pages
256
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Each year in the weeks preceding the deprivations of Lent, the Andalusian region of southern Spain erupts into madcap depravity, during a February carnival of riotous celebration. Carnival features subversive songs, burlesques and skits, transvestite parades, and public persecution of communal offenders, along with mournful elegies and heartfelt panegyrics. In this lively book, anthropologist David D. Gilmore, while exploring the meanings of Andalusian carnival, focuses particular attention on the songs, or coplas. He offers translations of many of these carnival productions and mines the rich vein of oral literature for a new understanding of the ways in which the Andalusian people interpret and negotiate their world. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
3
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