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  • At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice

    par Kyra D. Gaunt, Steven Loza, Charlotte W. Heth, Paul Austerlitz, Katie J. Graber, Darci Sprengel, Ho Chak Law, Alexandria Carrico, Erin E. Bauer, Rebekah E. Moore ...
    Collections series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change?A strong collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice studies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and differing abilities. Ethnographic work from a range of theoretical frameworks uncovers and ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Merengue

    Dominican Music and Dominican Identity

    par Paul Austerlitz ...
    Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music.Using extensive interviews as well as written ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    par Robert Farris Thompson ...
    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Making Samba

    A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

    par Marc A Hertzman ...
    In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Mystery of Samba

    Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    par Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Uncivil Wars

    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    par Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Collections series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... En savoir plus

    $24.79 CAD

  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    par Umi Vaughan ...
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceshows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba—planted, living like a ... En savoir plus

    $22.39 CAD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    par Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... En savoir plus

    $28.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Brazilians

    Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil

    par Marshall C. Eakin ...
    Collections series New Approaches to the Americas
    This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Hello, Hello Brazil

    Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    par Bryan McCann ...
    “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Modifié par Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... En savoir plus

    $100.30 CAD