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This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms, from the concertina, button accordion, and piano accordion familiar in European and North American music to the exotic-sounding South American bandoneon and the sanfoninha. Capturing the instrument's spread and adaptation to many different cultures in North and South America, contributors illuminate how the accordion factored into power struggles over aesthetic values between elites and working-class people who often were members of immigrant and/or marginalized ethnic communities. Specific histories and cultural contexts discussed include the accordion in Brazil, Argentine tango, accordion traditions in Colombia, cross-border accordion culture between Mexico and Texas, Cajun and Creole identity, working-class culture near Lake Superior, the virtuoso Italian-American and Klezmer accordions, Native American dance music, and American avant-garde.
A poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century--humankind's relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the daunting task of discerning that meaning. Critics have described his poetry as highly refined lyricism, metaphysical, existential, and at times erotic. Semantics of the World introduces the English-speaking world to the exciting work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre, one of Colombia's most celebrated living writers. This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public. The volume offers the perfect introduction to Rómulo Bustos Aguirre and his poetry for critical and popular audiences throughout the Anglosphere.
This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions. New consideration of the diversity of Afro-Latin American and Indigenous communities within the overarching categorization of "Colombianness" or Colombianidad have led to increased focus on the representation of Colombia and Colombian diasporic communities. By focusing on different cultural productions—novels, memoirs, films, plays and visual arts—this book analyzes the performance of Colombianidad by communities...
This book examines one of the most influential Latin American writers of the last decades. Arango explores Gabriel García Márquez’s origins, relevance, and themes to provide a new assessment of his Caribbean background and the deep roots of his work in popular culture.
By the late 1980s and early 1990s, a great number of TV shows and music acts blossomed in Colombia, all of which resorted to regional identity as the narrative core for a renewed idea of national identity. Among them was “Clasicos de la provincial,” an album by Colombian singer Carlos Vives and his band La Provincia (1993), which marked the beginning of a successful career that has spanned nearly three decades. Vives´s work not only earned much deserved recognition in the musical industry from the beginning, but most importantly, has come to be renowned as a landmark in the cultural history of Colombia. This book is the first in-depth analysis focused on the creation and production proc...
After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos (peoples of mixed Spanish and indigenous Indian ancestry). Aline Helg examines the historical roots of Colombia's treatment and neglect of its Afro-Caribbean identity within the comparative perspective of the Americas. Concentrating on the Caribbean region, she explores the role of free and enslaved peoples of full and mixed African ancestry, elite whites, and Indians in the late colonial period and in the processes of independence and early nation building. Why did race not become...
¿No era acaso la posmodernidad la vanguardia que destruía los grandes relatos? Este estudio evidencia la necesidad de entender las teorías de las corrientes artísticas como tentativas que siempre podrán ser rebasadas por los creadores, tal como lo ha hecho Roberto Burgos Cantor. Como si se tratara de una contradicción realizada, "La ceiba de la memoria" es una Novela Total Posmoderna que integra en un estado superior sus creaciones anteriores, las cuales hoy se comprenden como partes de una totalidad de su ficción que alcanza su mayor manifestación en esta novela.
A más de dos años de la desaparición de Gabriel García Márquez los trabajos aquí reunidos presentan lecturas diversas de periodistas, profesores y escritores alrededor de la persona y la obra de más relieve en la cultura colombiana, Si el título de este libro une el nombre del escritor a la conjunción de literatura y memoria es porque el hijo mayor del telegrafista de Aracataca nos enseñó a contemplar en sus tramas, metáforas e imágenes esa reunión de realidades e irrealidades que es nuestra historia.
En este libro se lleva a cabo un homenaje a la trayectoria vital y académica de Cristo Figueroa, quien a lo largo de su carrera en el campo de los Estudios Literarios se ha destacado como profesor, crítico, teórico de la literatura, cartógrafo y lector agudo y sensible. A través de los trabajos aquí reunidos, escritos por colegas y exestudiantes suyos, se hace evidente que el trabajo de Cristo Figueroa no solo nos habla sobre problemas literarios o textos, periodos o autores, sino sobre la constitución de una personalidad intelectual, la confluencia de centros, afectos y experiencias de vida, la sensibilidad crítica, la pasión por leer y escribir.
Esta obra constituye una oportuna contribución a los estudios literarios del Caribe colombiano. Si bien no todos los escritores examinados proceden de este espacio cultural, ni han tenido el mismo reconocimiento, la preeminencia del Caribe queda fuera de toda sospecha con estudios sobre Gabriel García Márquez, Germán Espinosa, Alberto Duque López, Alejandro Álvarez y Efraim Medina Reyes. Sus páginas, que complementan artículos sobre William Ospina, Alfredo Bryce Echenique y Juan José Saer, conjugan la precisión de la crítica contemporánea con el lenguaje de los textos bien logrados.