Download or read book Music in Latin America and the Caribbean An Encyclopedic History written by Malena Kuss and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries. Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico, focuses on the inextricable relationships between worldviews and musical experience in the current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into, among other things, how music is organized and performed, how musical instruments are constructed and when they are played, choreographic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of gender to instruments, and ritual patterns. Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich volume.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Independent Republic of Arequipa written by Thomas F. Love and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation's overall hybrid nature—a blending of coast (modern, "white") and sierra (traditional, "indigenous"). The Independent Republic of Arequipa investigates why and how this regional identity developed in a boom of cultural production after the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) through the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, Thomas F. Love offers the first anthropological history of southwestern Peru's distinctive regional culture. He examines both its pre-Hispanic and colonial altiplano foundations (anchored in continuing pilgrimage to key Marian shrines) and the nature of its mid-nineteenth century "revolutionary" identity in cross-class resistance to Lima's autocratic control of nation-building in the post-Independence state. Love then examines Arequipa's early twentieth-century "mestizo" identity (an early and unusual case of "browning" of regional identity) in the context of raging debates about the "national question" and the "Indian problem," as well as the post-WWII development of extravagant displays of distinctive bull-on-bull fighting that now constitute the very performance of regional identity. Love's research reveals that Arequipa's "traditional" local culture, symbolically marked by populist, secular, and rural elements, was in fact a project of urban-based, largely middle-class cultural entrepreneurs, invented to counter continuing Limeño autocratic power, marked by nostalgia, and anxious about the inclusion of the nation's indigenous majority as full modern citizens.
Download or read book Learn Spanish Level 9 Advanced written by Innovative Language Learning and published by Innovative Language Learning. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to audio lessons, while you read along! Buy or sample now! Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Start speaking Spanish in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Learn Spanish - Level 9: Advanced - a completely new way to learn Spanish with ease! Learn Spanish - Level 9: Advanced will arm you with Spanish and cultural insight to utterly shock and amaze your Spanish friends and family, teachers, and colleagues. What you get in Learn Spanish - Level 9: Advanced: - 25 Audio Lesson Tracks in Spanish - 25 Spanish Lesson Notes: monologue transcripts with translation, vocabulary and sample sentences This book is the most powerful way to learn Spanish. Guaranteed. You get the two most powerful components of our language learning system: the audio lessons and lesson notes. Why are the audio lessons so effective? - powerful and to the point - repeat after the professional teacher to practice proper pronunciation - cultural insight and insider-only tips from our teachers in each lesson - fun and relaxed approach to learning - effortlessly learn from bi-lingual and bi-cultural hosts as they guide you through the pitfalls and pleasures of Spanish-speaking countries and Spanish. Why are the lesson notes so effective? - improve listening comprehension and reading comprehension by reading the dialog transcript while listening to the conversation - grasp the exact meaning of phrases and expressions with natural translations Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning, and start speaking Spanish instantly!
Download or read book 100 Things to Do Before You Die written by Dave Freeman and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Things to Do Before You Die highlights the wildest and most exciting events on the planet. The authors profile the 100 best happenings, gatherings, festivals, and events from all over the globe, providing photographs and detailed reports from each scene.
Download or read book Four Seasons of Travel written by National Geographic Society (U.S.) and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of National Geographic's Journeys of a Lifetime series, a sumptuously photographed, detailed tour of hundreds of the world's most alluring locations and activities is seasonally organized to profile everything from the cherry-blossom temples of Kyoto to Rockefeller Center's ice-skating rink.
Download or read book Mary in Our Life written by Nicholas Joseph Santoro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary In Our Life: An Atlas of the Names and Titles of Mary, The Mother of Jesus, and Their Place in Marian Devotion presents the 1,969 names, titles, and appellations used to identify the Blessed Virgin Mary over the centuries in terms of their history and related events. Within these titles and their history can be seen the official and private attitudes and prejudices of the times; government pressures, conflicts, and interdictions; internal problems within the Catholic Church; and startling examples of dedication, devotion, and piety. Taken together, Marian titles are a real-life story of the Catholic faith.
Download or read book Motherhood in Mexican Cinema 1941 1991 written by Isabel Arredondo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s? Film analysis, interviews with filmmakers, academic articles and film reviews from newspapers are used to answer the question and trace the changes in such depictions. Images of mothers in films by so-called third-wave filmmakers (Busi Cortes, Maria Novaro, Dana Rotberg and Marisa Sistach) are contrasted with those in Mexican classical films (1935-1950) and films from the 1970s and 1980s. There are some surprising conclusions. The most important restrictions in the depiction of mothers in classical cinema came not from the strict sexual norms of the 1940s but in reactions to women shown as having autonomous identities. Also, in contrast to classical films, third-wave films show a woman's problems within a social dimension, making motherhood political--in relation not to militancy within the left but to women's issues. Third-wave films approach the problems of Latin American society as those of individuals differentiated by gender, sexuality and ethnicity; in such films mothers are citizens directly affected by laws, economic policies and cultural beliefs.
Download or read book Loci Sacri written by Thomas Coomans and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. This volume explores both the cultural developments that have shaped them and their varied multidimensional levels of significance.
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Canary Islands written by DK Publishing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Canary Islands travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the seven main islands have on offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations and detailed maps discover the unique personality of each island from the golden desertscapes of Fuerteventura to the ruddy red hues of Lanzarote. The guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs whether you're relaxing in a tiny fishing village in La Gomera or riding a cable car up Mount Teidi in Tenerife, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, resorts, restaurants, cafés and bars on each island for all price ranges. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites plus street-by-street maps of the major cities and towns and reliable information for getting around by train, car and foot. DK Eyewitness Canary Islands explores the culture, history, architecture and art of the islands and unearths the best in entertainment, outdoor activities, wildlife and shopping. With scenic routes, thematic tours, and all the sights, beaches, markets and festivals listed town by town, DK Eyewitness Canary Islands is indispensable. Don’t miss a thing on your holiday with the DK Eyewitness Canary Islands
Download or read book The Mediterranean written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by Leipzig : K. Baedeker Pub.. This book was released on 1911 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks written by Sabu M. Thampi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes best selected research papers presented at the International Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN 2019) held in Trivandrum, Kerala, India during December 18 – 21, 2019. The papers are organized in topical sections on real time and multimedia communications, security and privacy, network management and software-defined networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems, intelligent distributed systems, mobile computing and vehicle communications, surveillance networks and visual intelligence, and emerging topics. The book is a reference for researchers and scientists engaged in various fields of intelligent systems.
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Download or read book Calendar of Peru fiesta times written by Javier Silva Meinel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South America written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South America written by James Bryce and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
