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Languages : es
Pages : 0
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Obras Maestras de Arte Antiguo en la Coleccion Juan AbellÆ. S. XV-S. XIX.
The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542
Author: George Parker WinshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire
Author: Stela M. BrandãoPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253221382
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a singer's perspective and provides a basis for research into the songs of this richly musical area of the world. The book is divided by country into 22 chapters, with each chapter containing an introductory essay on the music of the region, a catalog of art songs for that country, and a list of publishers. Some chapters include information on additional sources. Singers and teachers may use descriptive annotations (language, poet) or pedagogical annotations (range, tessitura) to determine which pieces are appropriate for their voices or programming needs, or those of their students. The guide will be a valuable resource for vocalists and researchers, however familiar they may be with this glorious repertoire.
Dante
Author: Leigh HuntThe Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations
Author: Zelia NuttallPublisher:
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Category : Aztec calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Heroes on Horseback
Author: John Charles ChasteenPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826315984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.
Building-in-time
Author: Marvin TrachtenbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300165920
Category : Architectural practice
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name "Building-in-Time." It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter's. Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture ("Building-outside-Time"). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making.
Staging Frontiers
Author: William Garrett AcreePublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826361064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural, economic, and political influence revolutionized popular culture and daily life. In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage. More than just riveting social experiences, these dramas were among the region’s most dominant attractions on the eve of the twentieth century. Staging Frontiers further explores the profound impacts this phenomenon had on the ways people interacted and on the broader culture that influenced the region. This new, modern popular culture revolved around entertainment and related products, yet it was also central to making sense of social class, ethnic identity, and race as demographic and economic transformations were reshaping everyday experiences in this rapidly urbanizing region.
Divergent Modernities
Author: Julio RamosPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381095
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available for the first time in English—and now published with new material—Ramos’s study not only offers an analysis of the complex relationships between history, literature, and nation-building in the modern Latin American context but also takes crucial steps toward the development of a truly comparative inter-American cultural criticism. With his focus on the nineteenth century, Ramos begins his genealogy of an emerging Latin Americanism with an examination of Argentinean Domingo Sarmiento and Chilean Andrés Bello, representing the “enlightened letrados” of tradition. In contrast to these “lettered men,” he turns to Cuban journalist, revolutionary, and poet José Martí, who, Ramos suggests, inaugurated a new kind of intellectual subject for the Americas. Though tracing Latin American modernity in general, it is the analysis of Martí—particularly his work in the United States—that becomes the focal point of Ramos’s study. Martí’s confrontation with the unequal modernization of the New World, the dependent status of Latin America, and the contrast between Latin America’s culture of elites and the northern mass culture of commodification are, for Ramos, key elements in understanding the complex Latin American experience of modernity. Including two new chapters written for this edition, as well as translations of three of Martí’s most important works, Divergent Modernities will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand development and modernity across the Americas.
National Rhythms, African Roots
Author: John Charles ChasteenPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826329417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America.