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66 articles
Emilia Chamone, Frederico Lyra de Carvalho, Carlos Sandroni
pt

Maracatus transatlânticos

Grupos típicos de Pernambuco, Brasil, os maracatus expressam através de música, dança e rituais,...

Tania Regina de Luca, Nelson Schapochnik
pt

Edição

A rubrica reúne textos que enfrentam o desafio de refletir sobre a rede transnacional que, sobretudo a...

Lise Delmas
fr

Gordon Parks

Cet article s'intéresse aux tensions générées par la position de Gordon Parks (1912-2006) : un...

Marc Lapprand
fr

Boris Vian, passeur d’Amérique

Boris Vian s’est révélé dans sa courte vie un formidable introducteur de la culture américaine en...

Jacques Pothier
fr

William Faulkner, écrivain baroque de la Méditerranée américaine

Faulkner est au carrefour de plusieurs histoires littéraires mais est aussi l'inspirateur de nombreux...

Monica Bravo
en

Modernist Photography in Mexico: Networks of Migration

As active participants in the Mexican cultural renaissance, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Manuel...

Steve Hagimont
fr

Thermalisme

Les eaux thermales connaissent un mouvement d'appropriation touristique et stratégique au XVIIIe...

Marcos Napolitano
pt en

Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas

Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...

José Luis Bendicho Beired
pt en

Fernando Ortiz and the Transatlantic Exchange Network

Fernando Ortizs pioneering work established the foundations for the study of the black population in...

Anaïs Fléchet, Marcos Napolitano, Jean-Sébastien Noël
en

Music

Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...

Kenneth Weisbrode
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The American Century

In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...

Jessica Gienow-Hecht
en

US Cultural Diplomacy

The Cold War was the heyday of state-orchestrated cultural diplomacy in the U.S., at a time when many...

Eduardo Morettin
pt en

Cinema

The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...

Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa
pt

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) nasceu em Porto Novo (Benin). Estudou no Institut des hautes études...

Lila Foster
pt en

Domestic Cinema and Travel Films: images between Brazil and Europe (1920-1930)

In 1922, Pathé-Frères launched the Pathé-Baby projector in the French market, a small hand crank...

James Naremore
en

Orson Welles, Citizen of the World

Orson Welles was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but he often told interviewers that he was “...

Eduardo Morettin
pt en

Cinema at world’s fairs: historical and cultural practices

This article addresses the historical and cultural practices that involve the cinema in the...

Maud Quessard
fr

United States Information Agency

En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...

Richard Cándida Smith
es en

Pan Americanism

The US-led Pan American Union, created in 1890, is generally understood as a form of soft power...

Julie Verlaine, Didier Aubert
fr en

Visual Arts

In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...

Florencia Dansilio, Jean-Claude Yon
fr es en

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts section brings together articles examining the transatlantic exchange of objects,...

Juliette Dumont, Alexandre Fontaine, Jean-Charles Geslot
fr en

Education

Beginning in the 18th century, the field of education has been characterized by intense transatlantic...

Marie VERGNON
fr

Réception genevoise du Plan Dalton et de la pédagogie de Winnetka

H. Parkhurst (plan Dalton) et C. Washburne (écoles de Winnetka) sont deux pédagogues américains...

Xavier Riondet, Samuel RENIER
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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...

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Jean-Sébastien Noël
fr en

Memories

Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...

Jean-Sébastien Noël
fr

Luigi Nono, géographies transatlantiques

Le compositeur et militant communiste Luigi Nono a tissé, au cours de ses voyages en Amérique latine...

Tim Bergfelder
en

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...

Chloé Huvet
fr en

From Europe to Hollywood, and back. The Classic Hollywood Film Score

How did migrations of composers from Central and Eastern Europe to the United States shape the sound...

Mariana de Moraes Silveira
pt

Transatlântico

Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...

Francisco Rodriguez-Jimenez
en

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...

Francisco Martinho
pt en

Amália Rodrigues in Africa

Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was responsible for the popularization of fado in her own country and in...

Viviana Gelado
pt en

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Born in Cangrejos, Puerto Rico, in 1874, Schomburg became close to the group of studies coordinated by...

Fabio Guilherme Poletto
pt en

Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz

The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...

Loïc Artiaga
fr

Boxe

La boxe est un sport moderne majeur. Codifiée en Angleterre à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, elle devient un...

Mariano Ben Plotkin
en

Freud and Latin America: An Early Relationship

Throughout the 20th century, psychoanalysis has generated a “culture”, vastly overflowing its original...

Caio Gomes
pt en

Nueva Canción

During the 1940s and 1950s, the arts became a symbolic battlefield and ‘folklore’ was understood as a...

Ana Maria de Oliveira Galvão
pt en

Cordel

The essay adresses the cordel literature as part of a broader set of popular printed literature...

Juan Murillo Sandoval
es

El mundo impreso en las Exposiciones Universales

Una mirada a las razones la presencia de libros e impresos en las exposiciones universales. Se...

Ivan Lima Gomes
pt en

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...

Fabiola Rodríguez Barba
es

La diplomacia cultural de México en el Siglo XX

La diplomacia cultural fue un componente importante en la política exterior de México a lo largo del...

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
pt fr es en

South Atlantic

South Atlantic is approached as a space of circulation over three distinct periods. The first begins...

Maria Ligia Coelho Prado, Valdir Donizete Santos Junior
pt en

Robinson Crusoe

In 1719, Daniel Defoe published The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The story and the...

Anaïs Fléchet, Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Olivier Compagnon
fr

Périodiser l'Atlantique

Construire une périodisation susceptible de rendre compte, d’une part, des différents régimes...

Juliette Dumont, Didier Aubert
fr en

Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power

Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...

Jean-Yves Mollier
fr en

Transatlantic authors in European publishing after 1945

This article on the circulation of books in the transatlantic space starts with a historically datable...

Ludovic Tournès
fr en

The Rockefeller Foundation and the international funding of science (1920s-1950s)

The history of the Rockefeller Foundation’s international science policy highlights the pivotal role...

Simon Perego
fr en

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...

Jean-Charles Geslot
fr en

Artistic Education and Artist Training

The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...

Clément Astruc
fr en

Pelé and the world

From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, Pelé was the leading figure in football, a sport that...

Stéphanie Gonçalves
fr

L’Opéra de Paris dans les Amériques : une diplomatie dansante (1948-1950)

L’espace atlantique constitue un terrain privilégié pour le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris après la...

Florencia Dansilio
fr

Le théâtre Off

Cet article retrace les cheminements transatlantiques de la notion de "théâtre off" des années 1940 à...

Clara Bouveresse
en

Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...

Laurent Martin
fr

Francophonie: histoire d'un mot, actualité d'un projet

La francophonie est un mot forgé à la fin du XIXe siècle dans le contexte de la colonisation par la...

Clara Bouveresse
fr en

Photographic agencies

Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...

Cécile Cottenet
fr en

Literary Agents

Over the course of the 20th century, literary agents have maintained an important role in the...

Giulia Bonacci
fr en

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) is a major figure of Black nationalism and Pan Africanism. An...

Anaïs Fléchet
pt fr en

Gilberto Gil

“I knew that music would be my language and that I would discover the world through it.” From the ...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares
pt en

The Book of Knowledge between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ World: history of an encyclopedia

The Children’s Encyclopaedia, created by Arthur Mee in England, in early 20th century, became, by the...

Didier Aubert
en

Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti's Letter

Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...

Andrea Gremels
en

Wifredo Lam and Transversal Surrealism

Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam was a key figure of Surrealism's transversal network in the 20th...

Priscila Dorella
pt

Susan Sontag: uma intelectual pública

Judia, Susan Sontag nasceu em New York, estudou literatura, filosofia e teologia em renomadas...

Jan Baetens
fr

Le roman photo : un genre latin

Genre longtemps méprisé, le roman-photo a été l’un des formats médiatiques les plus populaires de la...

Ângela Meirelles de Oliveira
pt en

Henri Barbusse: pacifism and antifacism in the Americas

One of the first ‘war novels’ to be published in the twentieth century, Le Feu made Henri Barbusse...

Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz
fr

Faire comprendre la Suisse aux Américains : la radio internationale helvétique après la...

La radio, en particulier avec le développement des ondes courtes, est un outil indispensable au...

Henri Arraes Gervaiseau
pt en

Immigrants in New York: Cinematographic Representations (1898-1914)

Statue of Liberty, a small film of approximately fifty seconds produced by the Thomas Edison Company,...

Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, Richard Cándida Smith, Olivier Compagnon
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Intellectuals

This section examine how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...