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    Philanthropy, Latin Americanism, and Avant-garde Music

    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music. Providing the first in-depth study of CLAEM, author Eduardo Herrera tells the story of the fellowship program--funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Di Tella family- ... Read more

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    Series series Landscape and Heritage Studies
    This book focuses on alternative definitions of landscape in archaeology, particularly those that explicitly address landscapes’ political aspects. In doing so, this volume emphasizes the non-static, dialogic nature of landscape within a community and acknowledges how a community’s composition and its relationship with the landscape can lead to tensions and even violent conflicts with other groups ... Read more

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  • Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology

    Past, Present, and Future

    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to generous support from the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (grant agreement #101062882), and the IN THE SAME SEA history project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement ... Read more

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  • Experimentalisms in Practice

    Music Perspectives from Latin America

    Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions conceived or perceived as experimental. The conversation ... Read more

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  • Subjective Well-Being and Security

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Security, or the perceived lack thereof, impacts on quality of life at many levels. An important consideration is how security should be best understood. Although definitions of how to understand human security have been proposed, it is not clear how security should be measured. Security can be analyzed from different perspectives i.e., personal security, economic security, health security, ... Read more

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  • Music Making Community

    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of ... Read more

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  • The Portuguese in Canada

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    Even though the Portuguese are relatively new to Canada, they have made major contributions to the cultural mosaic of the country. Containing many new essays, this second edition of The Portuguese in Canada updates the work that filled a gap in the scholarly literature of multiculturalism in Canada.The contributors come from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, geography, history, literature, ... Read more

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  • Ethnomusicology

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

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    New Perspectives on Risk Perception

    by Paul Slovic ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
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