Tropical travels: Brazilian popular performance, transnational encounters, and the construction of race

Abstract

Afro-Brazilian performance on Rio de Janeiro's popular stages from the 1880s to the long 1920s -- The Rio de Janeiro-Paris performance axis in the first decades of the 20th century : Duque, the Oito Batutas, and the question of "race" -- The Teatro de Revista in Rio de Janeiro in the long 1920s : transnational dialogues and cosmopolitan black performance -- The cultural migrations of the stage and screen baiana, 1889/1950s