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Mariachi Music in America
Accompanying 50-minute CD contains examples of music discussed in the book.
The Son Jarocho
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Music and Social Change in Latinx Cultures, by Daniel Sheehy
The Music and Social Change in Latinx Cultures offers insights into the relationship between societal and musical change among Latinx peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere. There is a continuum of cause-and-effect relationships between music changing as a result of social change, and society changing because of the impact of music. As another variation of this continuum, people might purposefully not change traditional sounds as a form of resistance in the face of racism, hegemony, cultural coercion, or other forces of oppression, anchoring a sense of self and cultural integrity. Some of the ways to view social change in Latinx musical expressions include: Social protest, cultural and racial resistance, cohesion and empowerment, labor movements, revolution and counter-revolution, reconciliation and healing, civil rights movements, refugees and immigration, and women in traditional and contemporary music.
Fighting Immigration Anarchy
A groundswell has been steadily building in America among citizens who are fed up with seeing our country overrun by millions of illegal aliens foreign invaders who defy our laws, disrespect our culture, and refuse to learn our language. These citizens became activists when they saw that, if America is to survive as a nation and culture, her people will have to save her, because an out-of-touch Washington establishment has grown too corrupt to defend the land and Constitution that hundreds of thousands of Americans have died to preserve. Fighting Immigration Anarchy focuses on the struggles of eight citizen activists to awaken their fellow Americans to the encroaching danger. Through the ind...
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Latin America and describes the history, geography, demography, and cultural settings of the regions that comprise Latin America. It also explores the many ways to research Latin American music, including archaeology, iconography, mythology, his...
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932.
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa ; South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean ; The United States and Canada ; Europe ; Oceania
The critical importance of past for the present--of music histories in local and global forms--asserts itself. The history of world music, as each chapter makes clear, is one of critical moments and paradigm shifts.
Opera
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
