Download or read book Carlos Gardel Volver to Return written by Frederica Pratter and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CARLOS GARDEL "VOLVER" ("To Return") The Carlos Gardel story is told in 29 colorful chapters that are like scenes in a period movie set in the era of tango 1900-1935 in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and New York. It is dedicated to Carlos Gardel, "El Zorzal" (The Songbird of Buenos Aires) who for many of his admirers has become an almost quixotic obsession and who, to this day, is a charismatic hero as popular in Argentina as Evita Peron or Jesus. Out of poverty stricken, immigrant existence Carlos Gardel, the poor "Morocho Del Abasto" (Dark-Eyed Kid from Abasto) became South America's most charismatic interpreter of the tango-cancion, a wildly popular film star, and was crowned the Tango King in Paris in 1930. He was chosen to replace Rudolf Valentino for Paramount when he tragically died in a plane crash in Medellin, Colombia, 1935. This page turning, historic novel gives us new and sensational insight answering the many puzzling questions about the life of Gardel, his motivations, and his music. For example, why and how did the plane crash happen? His liaisons with women? His life long friendship with men? His role in creating the tango-cancion? His involvement with a rich older woman who financed his films? His acting career? And the tragic end as the words of the tangos "Volver" and "Mi Buenos Aires Querido" are fatefully fulfilled as the beloved Carlitos, after the plane crash, returns home to Buenos Aires in a coffin, and more than thirty thousand are in the streets during his funeral. "Mi Buenos Aires querido, cuando yo te vuelva a ver, no habra mas penas ni olvido." (My beloved Buenos Aires when I see you again I will feel no more pain or oblivion.) The riveting account of the life and death of the elusive Gardel is based on countless hours of research. The book also contains more than 30 translations of the most important tango-canciones, from lunfardo (slang of Buenos Aires), which are key to understanding the times and the milieu that created Tango Argentina and the tango-cancion. "It will snow in Buenos Aires before another Gardel is found!" "Cada dia canta mejor!"
Download or read book El Traductor Espa ol written by Mariano Cubí y Soler and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ask a Mexican written by Gustavo Arellano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ASK A MEXICAN ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clich s of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power. WHY SHOULD I READ ASK A MEXICAN ? At 37 million strong (or 13 percent of the U.S. population), Latinos have become America's largest minority -- and beaners make up some two-thirds of that number. I confront the bogeymen of racism, xenophobia, and ignorance prompted by such demographic changes through answering questions put to me by readers of my Ask a Mexican column in California's OC Weekly. I challenge you to find a more entertaining way to immerse yourself in Mexican culture that doesn't involve a taco-and-enchilada combo. OKAY, WHY DO MEXICANS PARK THEIR CARS ON THE FRONT LAWN? Where do you want us to park them? The garage we rent out to a family of five? The backyard where we put up our recently immigrated cousins in tool-shack-cum-homes? The street with the red curbs recently approved by city planners? The driveway covered with construction materials for the latest expansion of la casa? The nearby school parking lot frequented by cholos on the prowl for a new radio? The lawn is the only spot Mexicans can park their cars without fear of break-ins, drunken crashes, or an unfortunate keying. Besides, what do you think protects us from drive-bys? The cops?
Download or read book El traductor espa ol written by Mariano Cubi y Soler and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traductor Espanol Or A New and Practical System for Translating the Spanish Language by Mariano Cubi Y Soler written by Mariano Cubi y Soler and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Writing and Speaking Spanish for Beginners written by Margaret Caroline Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neuman and Baretti s Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages written by Henry Neuman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Download or read book Ordinary Injustice written by Alfredo Mirandé and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Injustice shows how the legal and judicial system is stacked against Latinos, documenting the racial inequities in the system from the time of arrest and incarceration to final deposition and post-conviction experiences. The book chronicles the obstacles and injustices faced by a young Latino student with no previous criminal record and how a simple misdemeanor domestic violence case morphed into a very serious case with multiple felonies, and potential life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Download or read book Neumann and Baretti s Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages written by Henry Neumann and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Spanish Book written by Lawrence Augustus Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learn Spanish Level 8 Upper Intermediate written by Innovative Language Learning and published by Innovative Language Learning. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red Camp written by Debra Diaz and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From barrios and labor camps spring life and inspiration. The Red Camp weaves a deeply humane and moving tapestry of coming of age and of the mundane and ugly transformed into the beauty of feminine self-discovery. Amid the poverty, exploitation and discrimination, families set down roots, send children to school and raise them to become better ñAmericans,î all in the hopes of providing a better life. Evoking a location at the margins of both established society and our imagination, the Red Camponce a labor camp, then a shanty town for migrant workers, and finally a barriois to Latino immigrants and laborers what New York tenements were to earlier generations. Debra Diaz has poetically recreated for us the life of one family struggling under the red roof of its shanty. The women of the Cruz family spin mesmerizing tales of hope, life, and inspiration. They describe the exquisite tension of male-female relationships, the sweet discovery of love, the high expectations and bitter disillusionment that husbands, wives, parents and children bear for each other, and the difficulties of life among a group of people caught between two cultures. In this richly textured and enchanting narrative, the voices of the Cruz family join in chorus to remember their trials and triumphs in the Red Camp. Hear the passionate music of an anniversary waltz, the haunting tale of a lost soul who murders her children and the call to a better life which in the end may not be as good as the family life shared in the Red Camp.
Download or read book A Practical Course with the Spanish Language written by Hermann M. Monsanto and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Practical Course in Spanish written by Hermann M. Monsanto and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Velvet Barrios written by Alicia Gasper De Alba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chicana/o popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons, heroes, cultural myths, popular rituals, and border issues as they are expressed in a variety of ways. The contributors dialectically engage methods of popular cultural studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. In addition to a hagiography of "locas santas," the book includes studies of the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, the representation of Latina bodies in popular magazines, the stereotypical renderings of recipe books and calendar art, the ritual performance of Mexican femaleness in the quinceañera, and mediums through which Chicano masculinity is measured.
Download or read book A First Book in Spanish written by James Pyle Wickersham Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Ghostly Poetry written by Daniel Aguirre-Otezia and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
