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"Primitive Modernities" invites us to reconsider the boundaries that usually separate popular culture from the culture of the elite. It focuses on the cultural network that enabled popular music--tango and samba--to transform into national and modern forms. The origin of tango and samba is considered primitive, marginal. Yet in the early decades of the twentieth century, they each came to symbolize a nation: Argentina and Brazil, respectively. Garramuno analyzes the aesthetic and ideological processes that enabled this transformation. Starting with the late nineteenth century, the author traces the changing meanings of the "primitive" in art, from savage and exotic to being linked to the modern. She considers not only music, but also painting, poetry, novels, essays, and films. Indeed, Garramuno understands culture as fundamentally a space of differences. In this sense, the book is also a reconsideration of the field of comparativism and of Brazil's place in Latin American Studies.

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• Full title: Primitive Modernities
• Subtitle: Tango, Samba, and Nation
• Author: Florencia Garramuno
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780804762496
• ISBN: 080476249X
• ID: 04718715
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. August 2011

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