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  • Cabo Verdean Rhythms

    Kolá San Jon, Spatialization, and the Performance of Creolidade

    by Martin Ringsmut ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Cabo Verdean Rhythms examines the rhythms, movements, and performances of Kolá San Jon, a performative tradition central to Cabo Verde’s Festas Juninas, as a lens for understanding the ongoing negotiations of social and cultural boundaries in Cabo Verde.The book examines Kolá San Jon as a site of spatialization and creolization, processes that are closely linked to the colonial and postcolonial ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Made in Germany

    Studies in Popular Music

    Edited by Oliver Seibt, Martin Ringsmut, David-Emil Wickström ...
    Series series Routledge Global Popular Music Series
    Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of German music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Germany and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    by Marisol de la Cadena ...
    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Mystery of Samba

    Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    by Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country’s African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • On the Plaza

    The Politics of Public Space and Culture

    by Setha M. Low ...
    Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

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  • Stahl's Deprescriber's Guide

    by Jeffrey R. Strawn, Stephen M. Stahl ...
    For decades, psychiatry has focused on initiating treatment—which medication to prescribe, in what dose, and for how long. But what happens when treatment needs to stop? How a medication is stopped is just as important as how it is started, and abrupt discontinuation can lead to unnecessary suffering, relapse, and often preventable withdrawal symptoms. Based on the principles of the bestselling ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

  • The Meanings of Macho

    Being a Man in Mexico City

    by Matthew C. Gutmann ...
    Series Book 3 - Men and Masculinity
    In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Dialectic Is in the Sea

    The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento

    by Beatriz Nascimento, Christen A. Smith, Bethânia N. F. Gomes, Archie Davies ...
    Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora. Her powerful ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Edited by Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Andean Entrepreneurs

    Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena

    by Lynn A. Meisch ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Native to a high valley in the Andes of Ecuador, the Otavalos are an indigenous people whose handcrafted textiles and traditional music are now sold in countries around the globe. Known as weavers and merchants since pre-Inca times, Otavalos today live and work in over thirty countries on six continents, while hosting more than 145,000 tourists annually at their Saturday market.In this ethnography ... Read more

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  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    by Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

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