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Download or read book From Tejano to Tango written by Walter Aaron Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda, are discussed. The scope of the contributors is vast as divergent musical styles such as the Macarena dace craze, Bob Marley's reggae music and the seductive strains of the tango are analyzed.

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Download or read book Listening to Salsa written by Frances R. Aparicio and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view "that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class."

Download or read book The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics written by José Ignacio Hualde and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the growth and increasing global importance of the Spanish language, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics brings together a team of renowned Spanish linguistics scholars to explore both applied and theoretical work in this field. Features 41 newly-written essays contributed by leading language scholars that shed new light on the growth and significance of the Spanish language Combines current applied and theoretical research results in the field of Spanish linguistics Explores all facets relating to the origins, evolution, and geographical variations of the Spanish language Examines topics including second language learning, Spanish in the classroom, immigration, heritage languages, and bilingualism

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Download or read book History of Spanish and Portuguese literature tr by T Ross written by Friedrich Bouterwek and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dictionary of Spoken Spanish written by U.S. Armed Forces and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1960-11-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must reference for students of Spanish and travelers anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world -- over 18,000 commonly used words, phrases, and expressions, plus valuable supplements on pronunciation, grammar, currency, road signs, geography, and foods.

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