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Book Tropic  lia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harold Rogers
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 1668013894
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Tropic lia written by Harold Rogers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away in this “original and highly immersive” (Good Morning America) debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds. Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind. He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his drug-dealing aunt and uncle, his mother makes her unwanted return, years after she fled to marry another American fool like his father. Misfortune, however, is a Cunha family affair, and no generation is spared. Not Daniel’s grandfather João—poor João—born to a prostitute and forced to raise his siblings while still a child himself. Not João’s wife, Marta, branded as a bruxa, reviled by her mother, and dragged from her Ilha paradise by her scheming daughter, Maria. And certainly not Maria, so envious of her younger sister’s beauty and benevolence that she took her vicious revenge and fled to the States, abandoning her children: Daniel and Lucia, both tainted now by their half-Americanness and their mother’s greedy absence. There’s poison in the Cunha blood. They are a family cursed, condemned to the pain of deprivation, betrayal, violence, and, worst of all, love. But now Maria has returned to grieve her father and finally make peace with Daniel and Lucia, or so she says. As New Year’s Eve nears, the Cunha family hurtles toward an irrevocable breaking point: a fire, a knife, and a death on the sands of Copacabana Beach. Amid the cacophony of Rio’s tumult—rampant poverty, political unrest, the ever-present threat of violence—a fierce chorus of voices rises above the din to ask whether we can ever truly repair the damage we do to those we love in this “fiery debut novel” (The Washington Post).

Book Brutality Garden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Dunn
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 1469615703
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Brutality Garden written by Christopher Dunn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. 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 1985. With key manifestations in theater, cinema, visual arts, literature, and especially popular music, Tropicalia dynamically articulated the conflicts and aspirations of a generation of young, urban Brazilians. Focusing on a group of musicians from Bahia, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil noted for its vibrant Afro-Brazilian culture, Christopher Dunn reveals how artists including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Ze created this movement together with the musical and poetic vanguards of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most modern and industrialized city. He shows how the tropicalists selectively appropriated and parodied cultural practices from Brazil and abroad in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a peaceful tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.

Book Tropicalia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Trelles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780268042363
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tropicalia written by Emma Trelles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles about the city of Miami.

Book Brutality Garden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Dunn
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780807849767
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Brutality Garden written by Christopher Dunn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropic¡lia. 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 1985. With key manifestations in theater, cinema, visual arts, literature, and especially popular music, Tropic¡lia dynamically articulated the conflicts and aspirations of a generation of young, urban Brazilians. Focusing on a group of musicians from Bahia, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil noted for its vibrant Afro-Brazilian culture, Christopher Dunn reveals how artists including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Z© created this movement together with the musical and poetic vanguards of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most modern and industrialized city. He shows how the tropicalists selectively appropriated and parodied cultural practices from Brazil and abroad in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a peaceful tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.

Book Tropicalla and Beyond

Download or read book Tropicalla and Beyond written by Stefan Solomon and published by Archive Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropicália and Beyond forms part of Tate Film's Counter-Histories series, a curatorial strand presenting thematic programmes that challenge stereotypes of movements in art and film history.

Book Sustainability  Social Responsibility  and Innovations in the Hospitality Industry

Download or read book Sustainability Social Responsibility and Innovations in the Hospitality Industry written by H. G. Parsa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference on sustainability, social responsibility, and green practices in hospitality and tourism, this book presents innovative research methods in sustainability, state-of-the-art research by leading internationally recognized scholars on this topic, providing an excellent source of quality research. Readers can expect to find several new ways to pursue research in sustainability.The book covers sustainability in the context of public policy and ethics, a popular topic with universal appeal to many disciplines beyond hospitality. It includes case studies and addresses sustainability issues from hotels, restaurants, tourism, travel, meetings, and others, with authors from all five continents.

Book Billboard

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-04-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Dust   Grooves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eilon Paz
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 1607748703
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Dust Grooves written by Eilon Paz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Book Tropical Truth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caetano Veloso
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780747571254
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Tropical Truth written by Caetano Veloso and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often described inadequately as the John Lennon or Bob Dylan of Brazil, Caetano Veloso is unquestionably one of the most influential and beloved of Brazilian artists and has developed a world-wide following. Now, in his long awaited memoir, he tells the heroic story of how, in the late 60s, he and a group of friends from the north-eastern state of Bahia created tropicalismo, the movement that shook Brazilian culture and civic order and pushed a nation then on the margins of world politics and economics into the pop avant-garde. Tropical Truth recounts the story of a country, its most subversive generation, and the odyssey of a brilliant constellation of artists. By turns erudite and playful, dreamlike and confessional, Tropical Truth is a revelation of Brazil's most famous artist, one of the greatest popular composers of the past century.

Book Brazil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Robinson
  • Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
  • Release : 2017-06-14
  • ISBN : 1786357852
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Brazil written by Laura Robinson and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores five key themes: the new face of news and journalism, social movements and protest, television, cinema, publicity and marketing, and media theory. Chapters reflect the Brazilian case as a laboratory for exploring the evolving media environment of one of the world’s most fascinating societies.

Book H  lio Oiticica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Zelevansky
  • Publisher : Prestel Publishing
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9783791355221
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book H lio Oiticica written by Lynn Zelevansky and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue accompanies the first full US retrospective of the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) in over two decades, organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art. It explores Oiticica's most acclaimed works, such as the "Parangolés" and the installation "Tropicália," as well as his involvement with music, literature, and response to Brazilian politics and the social environment. Essays by US and Latin American writers cover the entirety of his career, from his immersion in the 1960s counterculture to his life and work in New York City and final return to Rio de Janeiro, with special emphasis on his New York period between 1971 and 1978"--

Book Fuse Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Fuse Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Watercolour Ideas Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Goss
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2018-04-05
  • ISBN : 1781576068
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Watercolour Ideas Book written by Joanna Goss and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many artists first learn to paint in watercolour. But this flexible, dynamic medium has an immediacy that is perfect for experimentation. Discover textures, applications, techniques, combinations of materials, and new ways of tackling the medium you love. Rub it, dab it, scratch it, scrunch it. Cut it, glue it, sew it and seal it. And above all, learn from what other people do! This little book is full of big ideas from contemporary artists to inspire you to think differently. With a new idea on every spread of the book, you will discover fresh ways of working with watercolour to create work that is original and exciting.

Book The Wire

Download or read book The Wire written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mojo

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Mojo written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brazil Selling

Download or read book Brazil Selling written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Nexus

Download or read book Art Nexus written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: