Francophonie: A Historical Word, A Contemporary Idea
The word Francophonie was created at the end of the 19th century in the context of French...
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Americanization through the Arts
This collection focuses on analyses of artworks and brings together articles that examine the...
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Spas
In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a...
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Theater of the Oppressed: intercontinental trajectories
From its 1950s roots in Brazil to its proliferation around the world, the history of Theatre of the...
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Fonografia digital e circulação musical transatlântica
O artigo apresenta os principais processos envolvidos na produção e circulação da música gravada...
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The photo novel: a Latin genre
From 1947 to 1968, the long-scorned photo novel was one of Europe and Latin America’s most popular...
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Instituto Cubano del Arte e Indústria Cinematográficos
ICAIC was the first cultural body created in Cuba after the Revolution in accordance with Law 169,...
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O imaginário revolucionário no cinema de Santiago Álvarez Román
Santiago Álvarez Román (1919-1998) foi um cineasta cubano, diretor dos Noticieros ICAIC, cinejornal...
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammed Ali versus George Foreman (October 30, 1974)
The Muhammed Ali-George Foreman match for the world heavyweight title in Kinshasa was a “Black...
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Boxing
Boxing is a major modern sport. Codified in England at the end of the eighteenth century, it became a...
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L’exposition « Sensation » (Londres 1997- New York 2000) : scandales publics, financements...
Le voyage de Londres vers New York de l’exposition « Sensation », à la fin des années 1990, semblait...
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Reimagining Todd Webb's Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa
This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across...
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Presse en langue étrangère
La presse en langue étrangère, publiée d'un côté comme de l'autre de l'Atlantique, a joué un rôle...
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Periodizing the Atlantic
A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization...
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Le théâtre Off
Cet article retrace les cheminements transatlantiques de la notion de "théâtre off" des années 1940 à...
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Maracatus transatlânticos
Grupos típicos de Pernambuco, Brasil, os maracatus expressam através de música, dança e rituais,...
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Edição
A rubrica reúne textos que enfrentam o desafio de refletir sobre a rede transnacional que, sobretudo a...
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Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas
Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...
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Ruy Guerra, the ‘travelling filmmaker’
Ruy Guerra (RG) was born on 22/08/1931 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), capital of the Portuguese...
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Fernando Ortiz and the Transatlantic Exchange Network
Fernando Ortizs pioneering work established the foundations for the study of the black population in...
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Music
Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...
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The American Century
In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...
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US Cultural Diplomacy
The Cold War was the heyday of state-orchestrated cultural diplomacy in the U.S., at a time when many...
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Cinema
The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...
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Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) nasceu em Porto Novo (Benin). Estudou no Institut des hautes études...
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Orson Welles, Citizen of the World
Orson Welles was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but he often told interviewers that he was “...
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United States Information Agency
En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...
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Pan Americanism
The US-led Pan American Union, created in 1890, is generally understood as a form of soft power...
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Visual Arts
In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...
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Performing Arts
The Performing Arts section brings together articles examining the transatlantic exchange of objects,...
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Makossa
Born in Douala in the 1950s, and strongly influenced by Ghanaian highlife music, Congolese rumba and...
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Franklin Book Programs: The Cold War and US Cultural Imperialism
Franklin Book Programs was a non-governmental US program aimed at stimulating the publishing market...
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Education
Beginning in the 18th century, the field of education has been characterized by intense transatlantic...
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Glauber Rocha
A dimensão transatlântica do projeto estético do cineasta brasileiro Glauber Rocha será discutida a...
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La réception française de la pensée de Dewey dans le champ éducatif
La pensée éducative de John Dewey a connu une réception contrastée au cours du siècle qui s’est écoulé...
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Los Nuevos Cines
Usamos el concepto de “nuevos cines” para abordar un proceso que va desde mediados de los años...
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Memories
Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...
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Revista Cine Cubano
A revista Cine Cubano, criada em 1960, promoveu por mais de quatro décadas a circulação de notícias e...
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Disaster and Progress in Cultural Representations of the Titanic
This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Titanic disaster in 1912 in literature, art, cinema, and...
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Transatlântico
Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...
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The Transatlantic Voyages of Chris Marker
This article studies transatlantic networks established by film director Chris Marker. Whereas it...
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American Studies: the Cultural Branch of U.S. Empire?
American Studies was meant to emancipate U.S. culture from its British tutelage. It became a tool of...
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Amália Rodrigues in Africa
Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was responsible for the popularization of fado in her own country and in...
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Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz
The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...
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Nueva Canción
During the 1940s and 1950s, the arts became a symbolic battlefield and ‘folklore’ was understood as a...
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Cycling Across the Atlantic: A discussion of cycling culture in the Atlantic Region
Cycling has gone through standardization and modernization processes that have functionally brought...
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Comics in Newspapers, Magazines and Books: a Transatlantic Panorama
An overview of the history of comics from a transatlantic perspective. It is focused on the cultural...
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Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Ducados, known as Sarah Maldoror, is considered to be the first black woman to make cinema in...
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Gilberto Freyre and the geopolitics of race: the transatlantic circulation of Casa-grande &...
How did Casa-grande & senzala , Gilberto Freyre's main work, navigate between different scenarios and...
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South Atlantic
South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins...
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Robinson Crusoe
In 1719, Daniel Defoe published The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The story and the...
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Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power
Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...
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Transatlantic authors in European publishing after 1945
This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...
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Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present
From the late 19th century, the Yiddish language and culture had an intensely transatlantic moment...
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Artistic Education and Artist Training
The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...
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Pelé and the world
From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, Pelé was the leading figure in football, a sport that...
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Photographic agencies
Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...
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Literary Agents
Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...
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Gilberto Gil
“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the ...
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Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti's Letter
Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...
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Susan Sontag: uma intelectual pública
Judia, Susan Sontag nasceu em New York, estudou literatura, filosofia e teologia em renomadas...
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Intellectuals
This section examine how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...