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Book Entertaining Lisbon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joao Silva
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 0190628685
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Entertaining Lisbon written by Joao Silva and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater. These theatrical forms became an important site for the display of modernity, and the representation of a new national identity. Author João Silva argues that the rise of these genres is inextricably bound to the complex process through which the idea of Portugal was presented, naturalized, and commodified as a modern nation-state. Entertaining Lisbon studies popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and nation-building, showing that the promotion of the nation through entertainment permeated the market for cultural goods. Exploring the Portuguese entertainment market as a reflection of ongoing negotiations between local, national, and transnational influences on identity, Silva intertwines representations of gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making. An essential work on Portuguese music in the English language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in the development of material culture.

Book Entertaining Lisbon

    Book Details:
  • Author : João Silva
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0190215704
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Entertaining Lisbon written by João Silva and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining Lisbon explores Portuguese entertainment as a form of negotiation between local, national, and transnational influences on identity. Connecting gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making, author João Silva investigates popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and the rise of nationalism. An essential contribution to the literature on Portuguese music written in the English language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in the development of material culture.

Book Lisbon Travel Guide

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  • Author : 101 Coolest Things
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-08-31
  • ISBN : 9781537421742
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book Lisbon Travel Guide written by 101 Coolest Things and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! You've Found the Ultimate Guide to Lisbon Travel! You are super lucky to be going to Lisbon, and this guide will let you know all of the coolest things to do, see, and eat around the city. Why You Need 101 Coolest Things to Do in Lisbon This Lisbon guide will give you the lowdown on: the very best things to shove in your pie hole, from typical Portuguese tarts and the best places to find them, all the way through to Michelin star restaurants the best shopping so that you can take a little piece of Portugal back home with you, whether that's in the form of some vintage clothes or a bottle of delicious port. incredible festivals, whether you want to rock out to incredible bands, or you fancy discovering independent Portuguese cinema the coolest historical and cultural sights that you simply cannot afford to miss from medieval castles through to museums dedicated to local history the best places to have a few glasses of port and party like a local and tonnes more coolness besides! Get Your Copy NOW! Tags: Lisbon, Lisbon Travel Guide, Travel To Lisbon, Portugal Travel Guide, Lisbon History, Portugal History, Lisbon Restaurants, Portuguese Food, Backpacking Lisbon, Backpacking Portugal, Budget Travel Lisbon, Lisbon Holidays, Lisbon Accommodation

Book Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe

Download or read book Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe written by Christina Bezari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores women’s editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with foreign cultures, launch the careers of promising young authors and advocate for modernization and social change. By examining a neglected body of periodicals edited between 1860 and 1920, this book sets out to explore women’s editorial agendas and their interest in creating a connection between salon life and the print press. What purpose did this connection serve? How did women editors use their periodicals and their salons to create opportunities for cross-cultural exchange? In what ways did women use their double role as editors and salonnières to promote modernization and social progress in Southern Europe? By addressing these questions, this monograph contributes to the recent expansion of scholarship on nineteenth and twentieth-century periodicals and opens new avenues for theoretical reflection on European modernity. It also invites scholars and non-specialist readers to question the center vs. periphery model and to consider Southern European counties as cultural hubs in their own right.

Book Top 10 Lisbon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tomas Tranaeus
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-06-03
  • ISBN : 1465413170
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Top 10 Lisbon written by Tomas Tranaeus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Available in ePub format. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Lisbon will lead you straight to the very best on offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights, or want to find the best nightspots; this guide is the perfect companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 museums to the Top 10 events and festivals - there's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid. The guide is divided by area with restaurant reviews for each, as well as recommendations for hotels, bars and places to shop. You'll find the insider knowledge every visitor needs and explore every corner effortlessly with DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Lisbon. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Lisbon - showing you what others only tell you. Now available in ePub format.

Book Top 50 Best Things to do in Lisbon  Portugal

Download or read book Top 50 Best Things to do in Lisbon Portugal written by Nicholas Khatch and published by NK. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to this comprehensive list of 50 incredible things to do in Lisbon, Portugal. As you embark on your journey through this vibrant city, prepare to be captivated by its rich history, architectural marvels, cultural experiences, and mouthwatering cuisine. From exploring the charming neighborhoods of Alfama and Bairro Alto to visiting iconic landmarks like Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon offers a myriad of activities that cater to all interests and passions. Begin your adventure by diving into the heart of Lisbon's history. Wander through the labyrinthine streets of Alfama, the city's oldest neighborhood, where you'll discover ancient Moorish buildings, picturesque squares, and hidden viewpoints offering breathtaking vistas. Don't miss the opportunity to visit the imposing São Jorge Castle, perched atop one of Lisbon's hills, from where you can soak in panoramic views of the city. As you explore Lisbon, prepare to be awed by its architectural wonders. The Belém Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a magnificent fortress that once guarded the entrance to the city's harbor. Nearby, the Jerónimos Monastery stands as a testament to Manueline architecture, boasting intricate stone carvings and a stunning cloister. Take a moment to marvel at the grandeur of these structures, appreciating the artistry and craftsmanship that went into their creation. Lisbon's cultural scene is a treasure trove waiting to be discovered. Visit the National Tile Museum, home to a vast collection of decorative tiles, known as azulejos, which depict scenes from Portuguese history and mythology. Immerse yourself in contemporary art at the Berardo Collection Museum or delve into the world of classical music at the São Carlos National Theater. And of course, no visit to Lisbon would be complete without experiencing the soul-stirring sounds of Fado, the city's traditional music genre, at one of its atmospheric venues. Indulge your taste buds with Lisbon's gastronomic delights. Sample the famous Pastel de Nata, a creamy custard tart with a flaky crust, at the iconic Pastéis de Belém bakery. Feast on delectable seafood dishes like grilled sardines or succulent bacalhau (salted cod). Take a culinary journey through the city's vibrant markets, such as the Mercado da Ribeira, where you can taste a variety of local specialties and mingle with locals. Lisbon beckons with its history, culture, architecture, and cuisine, offering an unforgettable experience for every traveler. Embark on this remarkable journey and let Lisbon's charm weave its magic around you. From the moment you set foot in this vibrant city, you'll be enchanted by its beauty, warmth, and unique blend of tradition and modernity. So, come and immerse yourself in the wonders of Lisbon, and create memories that will last a lifetime.

Book Top 10 Lisbon

    Book Details:
  • Author : DK Travel
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-01-17
  • ISBN : 1465463526
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Top 10 Lisbon written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2017. True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Lisbon covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. This newly updated pocket travel guide for Lisbon will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, from Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery to Rossio Square and Comercio Square. Get up close and personal with the original artworks of Dalí, Picasso, Andy Warhol, and more. Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Lisbon. + Brand-new itineraries help you plan your trip to Lisbon. + Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time. + New Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-track ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more. + New typography and fresh layout throughout. You'll still find DK's famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of the city's history and culture. The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Lisbon. Recommended: For an in-depth guidebook to Lisbon, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Lisbon, which offers a complete overview of this city; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and maps; and more.

Book Lisbon Travel Guide  Quick Trips Series

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  • Author : Christina Davidson
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-04-24
  • ISBN : 9781532905384
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Lisbon Travel Guide Quick Trips Series written by Christina Davidson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy your trip to Portugal with the Lisbon Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun. The Quick Trips to Portugal Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of Lisbon. So don't waste time! We give you sharp facts and opinions that are accessible to you quickly when in Lisbon. Like the best and most famous sightseeing attractions & fun activities (including Cristo Rei, Santa Justa Elevator, Castelo de São Jorge, Ponte 25 de Abril Bridge, Aqueduto das Aguas Livres, Ponte Vasco da Gama (Vasco do Gama Bridge), Belem Tower, Afonso de Albuquerque Square, Jerónimo's Monastery, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Museu da Marinha, Parque das Nações (Park of Nations), Ajuda Botanical Gardens, Fado Shows at the Cine Theatro Gymnasium, Alfama (Lisbon's Oldest District)), where to experience the local culture, great local restaurant choices and accommodation for the budget-minded. Where to shop until you drop, party the night away and then relax and recover! Also included is information about the typical weather conditions in Lisbon, Entry Requirements, Health Insurance, Travelling with Pets, Airports & Airlines in Portugal, Currency, Banking & ATMs, Credit Cards, Reclaiming VAT, Tipping Policy, Mobile Phones, Dialling Code, Emergency numbers, Public Holidays in Portugal, Time Zone, Daylight Savings Time, School Holidays, Trading Hours, Driving Laws, Smoking Laws, Drinking Laws, Electricity, Tourist Information (TI), Food & Drink Trends, and a list of useful travel websites. The Lisbon Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun - don't visit Portugal without it! Available in print and in ebook formats.

Book Activities of Nondiplomatic Representatives of Foreign Principals in the United States

Download or read book Activities of Nondiplomatic Representatives of Foreign Principals in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queen of the Sea

Download or read book Queen of the Sea written by Barry Hatton and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and intimate portrait of one of the world's great cities.

Book Top 10 Lisbon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tomas Tranaeus
  • Publisher : Dk Pub
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780756670399
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Top 10 Lisbon written by Tomas Tranaeus and published by Dk Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Top 10: Lisbon travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Lisbon has to offer, whatever your budget. Whether you're looking for the liveliest nightlife in Lisbon, wish to spend the day exploring the historical Jeronimos Monastery or Belem Tower, or view the spectacular coastline while enjoying the finest Portuguese cuisine, this pocket sized travel guide is packed with essential information about every corner of the city. There are dozens of Top 10 lists including Lisbon's Top 10 most fascinating museums, the Top 10 beaches, Lisbon's Top 10 liveliest bars and clubs, the Top 10 Portuguese dishes, and even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid! Each Top 10 guide now contains a pullout map and guide that includes foldout maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day. Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Lisbon.

Book Lisbon Travel Guide 2024

Download or read book Lisbon Travel Guide 2024 written by T Turner and published by T Turner. This book was released on with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lisbon Travel Guide is the most up-to-date, reliable and complete guide to this wonderful city. Travelers will find everything they need for an unforgettable visit presented in a convenient and easy-to-use format. Includes quick information on planning a visit, navigating the city, experiencing Portuguese culture and exploring the beauty of Lisbon. Also includes a Portuguese phrasebook to help you communicate with the locals. Lisbon is Portugal’s hilly, coastal capital city. From imposing São Jorge Castle, the view encompasses the old city’s pastel-colored buildings, Tagus Estuary and Ponte 25 de Abril suspension bridge. Nearby, the National Azulejo Museum displays 5 centuries of decorative ceramic tiles. Just outside Lisbon is a string of Atlantic beaches, from Cascais to Estoril.

Book Work in Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rieke Jordan
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2019-05-02
  • ISBN : 150134773X
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Work in Progress written by Rieke Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work in Progress: Curatorial Labor in Twenty-First Century American Fiction interrogates contemporary texts that showcase forms of reading practices that feel anachronistic and laborious in times of instantaneity and short buffering times. Objects of analysis include the graphic narrative Building Stories by Chris Ware, the music album Song Reader by the indie rock artist Beck Hansen, and the computer game Kentucky Route Zero by the programming team Cardboard Computer. These texts stage their fragmentary nature and alleged “unfinishedness” as a quintessential part of both their narrative and material modus operandi. These works in and of progress feel both contemporary and retro in the 21st century. They draw upon and work against our expectations of interactive art in the digital age, incorporating and likewise rejecting digital forms and practices. This underlines the material and narrative flexibilities of the objects, for no outcome or reading experience is the same or can be replicated. It becomes apparent that the texts presuppose a reader who invests her spare time in figuring these texts out, diagnosing a contorted work-leisure dichotomy: “working these stories out” is a significant part of the reading experience for the reader–curatorial labor. This conjures up a reader, who, as the author argues, is turned into a curator and creative entity of and in these texts, for she implements and reassembles the options made available.

Book Indigenous Audibilities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Minks
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 0197532489
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Indigenous Audibilities written by Amanda Minks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the middle decades of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections in four interconnected case studies linking the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. Indigenous collections were embedded in political projects that negotiated issues of cultural diplomacy, national canons, and heritage. The case studies recuperate the traces of marginalized voices in archives, paying special attention to female researchers and Indigenous collaborators. Despite the dominant agendas of national and international institutions, the diverse actors and the multi-directional influences often created unexpected outcomes. The book brings together theories of collection, voice, media, writing, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. Indigenous Audibilities presents a social-historical method of listening, reading, and thinking beyond the referentiality of archived texts, and in the process uncovers neglected genealogies of cultural music research in the Americas"--

Book Elite Art Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eduardo Herrera
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 0190877553
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Elite Art Worlds written by Eduardo Herrera and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music. Providing the first in-depth study of CLAEM, author Eduardo Herrera tells the story of the fellowship program--funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Di Tella family--that, by allowing the region's promising young composers to study with a roster of acclaimed faculty, produced some of the most prominent figures within the art world, including Rafael Aponte Ledeé, Coriún Aharonián, and Blas Emilio Atehortúa. Combining oral histories, ethnographic research, and archival sources, Elite Art Worlds explores regional discourses of musical Latin Americanism and the embrace, articulation, and resignification of avant-garde techniques and perspectives during the 1960s. But the story of CLAEM reveals much more: intricate webs of US and Argentine philanthropy, transnational currents of artistic experimentation and innovation, and the role of art in constructing elite identities. By looking at CLAEM as both an artistic and philanthropic project, Herrera illuminates the relationships between foreign policy, corporate interests, and funding for the arts in Latin America and the United States against the backdrop of the Cold War.