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El texto explora la evolución de la música electrónica en México desde sus inicios en los años 20, influenciada por las vanguardias y la experimentación musical, hasta las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI. Durante las décadas de 1920 a 1960, la música electrónica mantuvo una trayectoria teórica y experimental, pero en los años 60, la influencia del rock y la contracultura comenzaron a fusionarse con elementos experimentales y populares. A medida que los instrumentos electrónicos se hicieron más accesibles en los años 70 y 80, se incorporaron a diversos géneros, incluyendo la cumbia, que adoptó sintetizadores y evolucionó hacia la electrocumbia. El texto destaca a pioneros como Jorge Reyes y Luis Pérez, así como propuestas contemporáneas como Acid Cabaret y Nortec, reflejando la evolución hacia un sonido nacional y global. Además, se reconocen las contribuciones de mujeres en la escena electrónica mexicana, que hoy tiene una notable presencia internacional.
En Iberoamérica sonora encontrarás autores que proceden de urbes como Buenos Aires, Ciudad de México, Bogotá, Los Ángeles, Santiago, Caracas, Quito, Guadalajara y Medellín y que de unos meses a la fecha se reconocen a través de un diálogo frecuente que, directa o indirectamente, impulsa la difusión del trabajo de músicos como los que aquí se incluyen. No podemos negar que las formas contemporáneas de interacción –los medios sociales, la internet, los llamados teléfonos inteligentes, las revistas digitales– han revolucionado nuestro mundo. Estas páginas que tienes entre tus manos son sólo otra consecuencia de ello y el testimonio fehaciente de que la música asimismo puede trascender fronteras y gustos de la mano de quienes nos dedicamos a su estudio, su difusión y la lúdica amplificación de su magia irrefrenable.
A collection of 150 stories about music from all over Latin America, including Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, as well as Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The stories were originally broadcast on public radio programs on NPR, PRX's The World, BCC, KPCC and Latino USA. The book contains 12 chapters, each following a specific narrative: music and identity; education, community building, immigration, women's empowerment, adversity, social unrest and violence, instruments, producers, place and nation; the music of Brazil, Cuba music and the diaspora. The book's main focus is Latin American music from across the continent, with an emphasis on the music of Latinos and other ethnic groups in Los Angeles. The book also tells a personal story: the author's constant, tireless search for stories that help explain how complex and diverse humans are and how we share something so special that brings us together: music. This edition includes illustrations by Alec Dempster.
The diary of Heinrich Witt (1799-1892) is the most extensive private diary written in Latin America known to us today. Written in English by a German migrant who lived in Lima, it is a unique source for the history of Peru, and for international trade and migration.
In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.
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In the intervening years since this book was published in 1981, the field of optimization has been exceptionally lively. This fertility has involved not only progress in theory, but also faster numerical algorithms and extensions into unexpected or previously unknown areas such as semidefinite programming. Despite these changes, many of the important principles and much of the intuition can be found in this Classics version of Practical Optimization. This book provides model algorithms and pseudocode, useful tools for users who prefer to write their own code as well as for those who want to understand externally provided code. It presents algorithms in a step-by-step format, revealing the ov...
In Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned, Stephen Haliczer places the current debate on sex, celibacy, and the Catholic Church in a historical context by drawing upon a wealth of actual case studies and trial evidence to document how, from 1530 to 1819, sexual transgression attended the heightened significance of the Sacrament of Penance. Attempting to reassert its moral and social control over the faithful, the Counter-Reformation Church underscored the importance of communion and confession. Priests were asked to be both exemplars of celibacy and "doctors of souls," and the Spanish Inquisition was there to punish transgressors. Haliczer relates the stories of these priests as...