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Title: Un continente metonimizado en la cabeza: Las noches de Carmen Miranda, de Lucía Guerra *.
Author: Jacobo Sefamí
Publication: Revista Chilena de Literatura (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 64Page: 125(5)

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 195 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Maria Bethânia, Clara Nunes, Bidu Sayão, Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Cláudia Leite, Marisa Monte, Carmen Miranda, Margareth Menezes, Elis Regina, Bia Krieger, Ivete Sangalo, Astrud Gilberto, Rita Lee, Ana Carolina, Pitty, Daniela Mercury, Gal Costa, Eliane Elias, Tânia Maria, Cibelle, Elza Soares, Rosa Passos, Adriana Calcanhotto, Elsie Houston, Sandra Godoy, Vanessa Da Mata, Bebel Gilberto, Aurora Miranda, Mônica Passos, Néya Fernandes, Cássia Eller, Fernanda Abreu, Márcia Freire, Zélia Duncan, Maria Rita, Marcia Maria, Marlene, Nazaré Pereira, Nara Leão, Loalwa Braz, Georgia Brown, Alcione, Salomé de Bahia. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Maria Bethânia - Wikipédiabody{behavior:url("/w/skins-1.5/vector/csshover.htc")} Maria Bethânia ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films (e.g.Down Argentine Way) simply plop the songs in as unrelated "specialties" - as with Carmen Miranda's numbers. A subgenre of the musical film is the musical comedy, which includes a strong element of humour as well as the usual music, dancing and storyline. The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of lavish background scenery which would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater; performers often treat their song and dance numbers as if there is a live audience watching. In a sense, the viewer becomes the deictic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. ... Read more

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My Father Was Carmen Miranda is the story of music hall showgirl Nena Jover Kelty--part of the renowned Jover family who entertained in circuses, theaters and music halls throughout the world for three generations. When her father's act, "The Two Jovers," broke up in 1939--Tommy Jover drafted his children to form a new act, "Tommy Jover with Nena and Raf," and they played all over Britain through the dark years of World War II, from 1939 to 1946. Although buzz bombs were falling, food was scarce, and travel often dangerous, nothing would frighten the Brits into giving up their evenings at the Music Hall.In the best tradition of British variety, Tommy Jover did a raucous turn as a female impersonator--and Music Hall patrons screamed with delight when he topped his head with a fruit basket and made like Carmen Miranda--much to the embarrassment of young Nena, who played straight to her father's comic antics. "My Father was Carmen Miranda" offers glimpses of well known British headliners likeMax Miller ("Mary From the Dairy"), George Formby ("With Me Little Ukelele in Me Hand"), Tommy Trinder (Champaigne Charlie), Vera Lynn ("We'll Meet Again"),Flanagan and Allen ("Underneath the Arches), Dick Henderson (Tiptoe Through the Tulips), and Tessie O'Shea ("No One Loves a Fairy When She's Forty"), and is a vivid backstage look at the vanished world of the English Music Hall. ... Read more

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A fun and interesting read
I picked up this little gem in a bookstore in Glendale, the title and cover photo having caught my eye.The author recounts her days as a young woman performing (mostly in England) just before, during, and shortly after WWII.It's an easy read and quite entertaining.She really gives you a feel for English life during an incredible time in history.She obviously wasn't living the life of a typical English girl by any means, traveling extensively and entertaining civilians, troops, and officers, but she puts you right in there among the bombs dropping, the ration cards, the blackouts, and people carrying on living in houses which are missing an entire outside wall.
There are lots of stories about the different acts that shared the stage with her and her family and tidbits about what goes on backstage.Her style is breezy and she moves her story along quickly.I'm sure she cut out a lot.The book is short enough that she probably could've put in another 4 or 5 chapters and not bored the reader.
I'd recommend this book.At the very end, you find out that not only did she live a pretty interesting life in England, but then after she came to the U.S. as a newlywed, she and her husband went on to found Kelty Pack.That was intriguing enough for me to look up that information and find out that there's another book she wrote: Backpacking the Kelty Way.I intend to read that one next. ... Read more

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Chapters: Joe Strummer, Carmen Miranda, Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, Youssou N'dour, Harry Belafonte, Fela Kuti, Adam Rudolph, Miriam Makeba, Aldo, King Sunny Adé, Manu Dibango, Barbara Kanam, Salif Keita, Alan Steward, Wayne Gerard Trotman, Seun Kuti, Femi Kuti, Steve Kekana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 22 December 2002), better known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash. He was also a member of The 101ers, The Mescaleros and, temporarily, The Pogues. Strummer was born John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey on 21 August 1952. His mother Anna Mackenzie, a crofter's daughter born and raised in Bonar Bridge in the Scottish Highlands, was a nurse. His father Ronald Mellor, was a British foreign-service diplomat born in Lucknow, India. Ronald Mellor had an Armenian maternal grandfather and a German Jewish paternal grandmother. The family spent much time moving from place to place, and Strummer spent parts of his early childhood in Cairo, Mexico City, and Bonn. At the age of 9, Strummer and his older brother David, 10, began boarding at the City of London Freemen's School in Surrey. Strummer rarely saw his parents during the next seven years. He developed a love of rock music listening to records by Little Richard and The Beach Boys as well as American folk-singer Woody Guthrie (Strummer would even go by the nickname "Woody" for a few years). By 1970 his brother David had become estranged from his family and had joined the National Front. His suicide in July of that year profoundly affected Strummer, as did having to identify his body after it had lain undiscovered for three days. After finishing his time at City of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=160965 ... Read more

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