scholarly journals From street dance to hip hop

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Guarato
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Dance Clubs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The City

This text historicizes the concept of street dance (dança de rua) by showing distances and approaches in relation to hip hop. For this purpose, the analysis starts from the cultural history of street dance in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (Brazil), to understand the complex relationships that gave meaning and form to the practice of street dance between the 1980s and 1990s. In a first step, I investigate the various perspectives that permeate the bond between the popular dance and dance festivals, well as between the city neighbourhoods and dance clubs. In a second step, the analysis shifts to the cultural performance that allowed street dancers to migrate to the so-called hip hop dance. Analysing street dance and hip hop considering their ruptures and continuities, the text intends to contribute to studies dedicated to the presence of dance in the construction of urban identities.

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

Puccini's La Bohème

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
La Boheme ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera’s rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings, and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals, and more. In this cultural history of Puccini’s opera, Wilson offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. La bohème was strikingly modern for the 1890s, she argues, in its approach to musical and dramatic realism and in flouting many of the conventions of the Italian operatic tradition. Considering the work within the context of the aesthetic, social, and political debates of its time, Wilson explores Puccini’s treatment of themes including gender, poverty, and nostalgia. She pays particular attention to La bohème’s representation of Paris, arguing that the opera was not only influenced by romantic mythologies surrounding the city but also helped shape them. Wilson concludes with a consideration of the many and varied approaches directors have taken to the staging of Puccini’s opera, including some that have reinvented the opera for a new age. This book is essential reading for anyone who has seen La bohème and wants to know more about its music, drama, and cultural contexts.

Urban Formalism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Faflik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The West ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Street Protest ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
The City

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity. What did it mean to read a city sidewalk as if it were a literary form, like a poem? On what basis might the material form of a burning block of buildings be received as a pleasurable spectacle? How closely aligned were the ideology and choreography of the political form of a revolutionary street protest? And what were the implications of conceiving of the city’s exciting dynamism in the static visual form of a photographic composition? These are the questions that Urban Formalism asks and begins to answer, with the aim of proposing a revisionist semantics of the city. This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.

Cuba Through A New Lens

2008 ◽  
Vol 81 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 265-270
Author(s):  
Jean Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

[First paragraph]The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered. Samuel Farber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. x + 212 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Cuba: A New History. Ric hard Gott . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 384 pp. (Paper US$ 17.00)Havana: The Making of Cuban Culture. Antoni Kapcia. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2005. xx + 236 pp. (Paper US$ 24.95) Richard Gott, Antoni Kapcia, and Samuel Farber each approach Cuba through a new lens. Gott does so by providing a broad-sweep history of Cuba, which is epic in scope, attaches importance to social as much as political and economic history, and blends scholarship with flair. Kapcia homes in on Havana as the locus for Cuban culture, whereby cultural history becomes the trope for exploring not only the city but also Cuban national identity. Farber revisits his own and others’ interpretations of the origins of the Cuban Revolution.

ASPECTOS DO CLUBISMO NA INTRODUÇÃO DO FOOT-BALL EM OLIVEIRA ”“ MG (1916-1920)

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
DANIEL VENá‚NCIO DE OLIVEIRA AMARAL ◽  
EUCLIDES DE FREITAS COUTO
Keyword(s):  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Spatial Diffusion ◽  
Association Model ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Opening Up

 Este artigo investiga, por meio da análise do corpo discursivo dos periódicos Gazeta de Minas e Divinopolis, alguns aspectos acerca do modelo clubá­stico de associação do futebol na cidade de Oliveira, MG, entre os anos de 1916 e 1920, perá­odo que corresponde á s primeiras experiências com o fenômeno futebolá­stico no meio local. Investiga-se, também, de que maneira a difusão espacial do futebol por diversas outras localidades do Oeste mineiro contribuiu para que o esporte bretão se configurasse como veá­culo capaz de favorecer a sociabilidade e a abertura de vias de aproximação polá­tica entre os grupos hegemônicos da cidade de Oliveira e de suas adjacências.Palavras-chave: Prática do Futebol.   História do Futebol. Clubismo.ASPECTS OF CLUB ASSOCIATION IN THE INTRODUCTION OF FOOT-BALL IN OLIVEIRA ”“ MG (1916-1920)Abstract: This article investigates through the discursive body of the periodicals Gazeta de Minas and Divinopolis some features about the club association model of football in the city of Oliveira ”“ MG, concerning the years of 1916 to 1920, a moment that corresponds to the first experiences with the phenomenon of football in the local setting. It is also investigated how the spatial diffusion of football in several other locations in western Minas Gerais contributed to the development of the British sport as a vehicle capable of favoring sociability and opening up political approaches amongst the hegemonic groups of Oliveira and its surroundings.Keywords: Soccer Practice. History of Football. Club Association.  ASPECTOS DEL CLUBISMO EN LA INTRODUCCIÓN DEL FOOT-BALL EN OLIVEIRA ”“ MG (1916-1920)Resumen: Este artá­culo investiga, a través del análisis del cuerpo discursivo de los periódicos Gazeta de Minas y Divinopolis, algunos aspectos acerca del modelo clubá­stico de asociación del fútbol en la ciudad de Oliveira ”“ MG, entre los años de 1916 y 1920, perá­odo que corresponde a las primeras experiencias con el fenómeno futbolá­stico en el medio local. Se investiga, también, de qué manera la difusión espacial del fútbol por diversas otras localidades del "Oeste Mineiro" contribuyó para que el deporte bretón se configurara como vehá­culo capaz de favorecer la sociabilidad y la apertura de vá­as de aproximación polá­tica entre los grupos hegemónicos de la ciudad de Oliveira y de sus adyacencias.  Palabras clave: Práctica del Fútbol. Historia del Fútbol. Clubismo.

URBAN FOOTBALL PERFORMANCES: PLAYING FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN SENEGAL, 1950s–2000s

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Baller
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Social Space ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTIn Senegal, neighbourhood football teams are more popular than teams in the national football league. The so-called navétanes teams were first created in the 1950s. Since the early 1970s, they have competed in local, regional and national neighbourhood championships. This article considers the history of these clubs and their championships by focusing on the city of Dakar and its fast-growing suburbs, Pikine and Guédiawaye. Research on the navétanes allows an exploration of the social and cultural history of the neighbourhoods from the actor-centred perspective of urban youth. The history of the navétanes reflects the complex interrelations between young people, the city and the state. The performative act of football – on and beyond the pitch, by players, fans and organizers – constitutes the neighbourhood as a social space in a context where the state fails to provide sufficient infrastructure and is often contested. The navétanes clubs and championships demonstrate how young people have experienced and imagined their neighbourhoods in different local-level ways, while at the same time interconnecting them with other social spaces, such as the ‘city’, the ‘nation’ and ‘the world’.

scholarly journals Resgate Histórico da Praça Dr. Salatiel: o Jardim do Largo da Cachaça, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brasil

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Amanda Burgarelli Teixeira ◽  
Nayhara Camila Andrade ◽  
Schirley Fátima Nogueira da Silva Cavalcante Alves
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Botanical Composition ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Current State ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
The City

The Dr. Salatiel Square, located at Marechal Bittencourt Street in the historical center of the São João del-Rei city, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, appeared in the twentieth century during the period of hygienism. It was inserted in a place that over the years suffered several modifications on its morphology. The work aims to study the landscape aspects and socio-cultural evolution of this square. This work execution consisted of the two steps: field research for the identification of the historical square significance, and a research that was carried out in the historical collections of the city. During the field research, it was collected the current state of Dr. Salatiel Square as well as its uses and potentials, and its botanical composition. Analyzing the square and its surroundings, and also the information collected in São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, it was possible to verify that the site, which nowadays the Dr. Salatiel Square is placed, was occupied before by European influenced houses that were overthrown later in the period of hygienism. Among all the nomenclatures already attributed to the street that shelter the square, the best known by population is Cachaça’s Street due to the commerce of the time which favored the nightlife and bohemia. The square in study is part of the historical center of the city, and all its surroundings are overturned. However, the square has faced significant constructive and botanical modifications on its structure constituting a space characterized by the abandonment due to factors such as accumulation of garbage and great flow of vehicles. From the carried out study, it was verified that the number of information about the place is scarce, so that the continuation of its historical rescue is of great importance for means of preserving the history of the city and the population.

scholarly journals A monument to Lazarus: the leprosy hospital of Rio de Janeiro

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 143-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hunter Smith III
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Health Care Professions ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Soon after the Portuguese made landfall in 1500, Europeans and, later, African slaves introduced leprosy, and Saint Lazarus, the patron saint of its victims, into Brazil. Social and political pressure mounted by the middle of the eighteenth century in the city of Rio de Janeiro to remove those unfortunates from the city's streets even before the move of Brazil's capital in 1763. Frei Antônio, the bishop of Rio, founded the venerable hospital that year in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão. He requested that the Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento da Candelária provide oversight and administration. The brotherhood continues to honor its covenant of 239 years ago. The history of this hospital provides insight into the complex relationships that existed between the citizenry and church and state. Rio's leprosy hospital, now the Hospital Frei Antônio, had an important role in the evolution of the health care professions, progress in medical science, and the genesis of the hygienic movement in Brazil. This study also contributes to the history of a disease that persists in 2002 Brazil as a public health issue.

Vienna

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-116
Author(s):  
Andrew Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the cultural history of Vienna as a story of modernity, space, and power, from the late nineteenth century construction of the Ringstrasse to the postwar building of Red Vienna. It traces the city’s particular version of the geographical emotions of modernism, concentrating upon how the city’s architectural spaces helped shape an ‘inward turn’ in the mood or stimmung (Heidegger) of the modernism produced here, often producing notions of spatial phobias. It also analyses the importance of coffee houses as cultural spaces, and the ‘outsider’ figure of Jewish writers and thinkers in the city. After discussion of key Viennese figures such as Sigmund Freud and Robert Musil, it then traces how Anglophone visitors such as John Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison (in her Vienna Diary), Jean Rhys, and Stephen Spender (in his neglected long poem Vienna) represented the mood of the city in the interwar years. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Carol Reed’s 1949 film The Third Man.

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