Universal exhibitions and the cinema: history and culture

The objective of this article is to examine the presence of cinema in World Fairs between the 1893 World`s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and 1939 (the New York World`s Fair). As an integral part of a visual culture constructed by these spaces to celebrate capitalism, the trajectory of cinema is identified with these world fairs due to its ability to entertain and, at the same time, to educate. Cinema was established as a means of mass communication during the First World War and afterwards would participate more actively in the symbolic disputes of a world about to enter the second global conflict. It would reach a broader public, becoming the main `showcase` in which nations projected virtues to be celebrated. The new striking visual spectacle assumed, within this context, greater emphasis through films idealized as true cinematographic monuments.

Popular music exhibitions in Portugal: practices of representation from 2007 to 2013

This thesis focuses on the representation of Popular Music in museums by mapping, analyzing, and characterizing its practices in Portugal at the beginning of the 21st century. Now that museums' ability to shape public discourse is acknowledged, the examination of popular music's discourses in museums is of the utmost importance for Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies as well as for Museum Studies. The concept of 'heritage' is at the heart of this processes. The study was designed with the aim of moving the exhibiting of popular music in museums forward through a qualitative inquiry of case studies. Data collection involved surveying pop-rock music exhibitions as a qualitative sampling of popular music exhibitions in Portugal from 2007 to 2013. Two of these exhibitions were selected as case studies: No Tempo do Gira-Discos: Um Percurso pela Produção Fonográfica Portuguesa at the Museu da Música in Lisbon in 2007 (also Faculdade de Letras, 2009), and A Magia do Vinil, a Música que Mudou a Sociedade at the Oficina da Cultura in Almada in 2008 (and several other venues, from 2009 to 2013). Two specific domains were observed: popular music exhibitions as instances of museum practice and museum professionals. The first domain encompasses analyzing the types of objects selected for exhibition; the interactive museum practices fostered by the exhibitions; the concepts and narratives used to address popular music discursively, as well as the interpretative practices they allow. The second domain, focuses museum professionals and curators of popular music exhibitions as members of a group, namely their goals, motivations and perspectives. The theoretical frameworks adopted were drawn from the fields of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and museum studies. The written materials of the exhibitions were subjected of methods of discourse analysis methods. Semi-structured interviews with curators and museum professional were also conducted and analysed. From the museum studies perspective, the study research suggests that the practice adopted by popular music museums largely matches that of conventional museums. From the ethnomusicological and popular music studies stand point, the two case studies reveal two distinct conceptual worlds: the first exhibition, curated by an academic and an independent researcher, points to a mental configuration where popular music is explained through a framework of genres supported by different musical practices. Moreover, it is industry actors such as decision makers and gatekeepers that govern popular music, which implies that the visitors' romantic conception of the musician is to some extent dismantled; the second exhibition, curated by a record collector and specialist, is based on a more conventional process of the everyday historical speech that encodes a mismatch between “good” and “bad music”. Data generated by a survey shows that only one curator, in fact that of my first case study, has an academic background. The backgrounds of all the others are in some way similar to the curator of the second case study. Therefore, I conclude that the second case study best conveys the current practice of exhibiting Popular Music in Portugal.

L'invention de la race : des représentations scientifiques aux exhibitions populaires

4e de couv.: Comment est né le concept moderne, scientifique, de "race" ? Pourquoi est-il devenu si rapidement hiérarchique, distinguant les "races inférieures" des "races supérieures" ? Et comment ce concept a-t-il pu revêtir une telle importance, aussi bien au sein de la communauté scientifique qu'auprès du grand public, au cours du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle, jusqu'à être utilisé pour expliquer l'histoire et le devenir de l'humanité ? Autant d'interrogations, à l'origine de ce livre. L'invention de la race analyse la genèse des conceptions scientifiques de la "race", et montre que les nouvelles techniques de mesure et de représentation des corps racialisés opèrent une révolution visuelle majeure, inscrivant la différence humaine dans la biologie. Cet ouvrage avance qu'à partir d'une origine européenne, l'idée de race s'est étendue - par les connexions transnationales de réseaux scientifiques et marchands -, à tout l'Occident, mais aussi au Japon, à la Corée et à une partie de la Chine. Partout, elle suscite représentations et politique raciales discriminatoires. L'ouvrage montre aussi que les théories sur les hiérarchies raciales ont influencé les spectacles ethniques (dont les zoos humains), les expositions internationales et coloniales, la photographie ou les collections ethnographiques. Les expositions internationales et coloniales et l'internationalisation des spectacles ethniques ont largement véhiculé ces hiérarchies, contribuant forger une vision du monde fondée sur l'inégalité des races.

Women from the point of view of the Bukowskian narrator: the representation of the feminine universe in Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

Vegetables and their cultivation; the history, cultivation, and forcing of culinary vegetables, saladings, and herbs, for home use and exhibitions; also the formation of the vegetable garden; the management of soils; manures and their uses; and the eradication of injurious insect and fungoid pests, etc. ...

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Schedule of prizes and exhibitions ... for the year 1928-

Mode of access: Internet.