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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
Music Scenes and Migrations
‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe. Moving beyond now-contested models for conceptualizing international musical relations and hierarchies of powers and influence, such as global/local or centre/periphery, the volume draws attention instead to the role of the city, in particular, in producing, signifying and mediating music-making in the colonial and post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world. In considering the roles played by cities as hubs of cultural intersection, socialization, exchange and transformation; as ...
Choro Maranhense
The term choro is a complex expression of a genre, a style and a cast. This diversity is complemented by regionality and forms a special appearance with the choro tradition in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. This work represents the first attempt to systematically explore this choro and to open it as a contribution to the basic research aboutthe music in Maranhão. This Choro Maranhense is a living tradition that is very receptive to neighboring styles of music and sets itself apart from other choro styles in Brazil in its musical practice. The practice of this music of the Northeast has a long history and was influential for the entire music of the country. Notwithstanding the dispute of ...
After Palmares
In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast Brazil, Palmares stood for a century, withstanding sustained attacks from two European powers. In 1695, colonial forces assassinated its most famous leader, Zumbi. Hertzman examines the remarkable ways that Palmares and its inhabitants lived on after Zumbi’s death, creating vivid portraits of those whose lives and voices scholars have often assumed are inaccessible. With an innovative approach to African languages, and paying close attention to place as well as African and diasporic spiritual beliefs, Hertzman reshapes our understanding of Palmares and Zumbi and advances a new framework for studying fugitive slave communities and marronage in the African diaspora.
Mídia, cultura e imaginário urbano
O livro “Mídia, cultura e imaginário urbano” traz 11 capítulos que refletem, a partir de uma perspectiva comunicacional, as relações entre cidades, mídias, culturas, eventos e sociabilidades. Em cada capítulo, há uma crônica autoral que antecede o artigo. Essa ousadia acadêmica no desenvolvimento dos textos possibilitou com que cada pesquisador(a) pudesse se aproximar de diferentes espaços, flanar pelas tramas das cidades e contar sobre suas experiências, assim como tensionar conceitos e teorias a partir de objetos de pesquisa variados.
Democracy and Brazil
Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, followed by the controversial impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. In this new, more conservative period in Brazilian politics, a series of institutional reforms deepened the distance between citizens and representatives. Brazil's current political crisis cannot be understood without reference to the continual growth of right-wing and ultra-right discourse, on the one hand, an...
Faces Contemporâneas da Cultura Popular
O objetivo deste livro está em expor e analisar facetas que hoje configuram as culturas populares no Brasil. Em seus nove capítulos, percorre-se um trajeto em que são reveladas feições das mais distintas das culturas populares na atualidade brasileira. A pretensão é indagar como, frente à miríade vasta e multifacetada, podem as ciências sociais forjar ferramentas adequadas de análise e interpretação.
Mulheres dos cabelos brancos
2a lugar do 8o Prêmio ABEU, 2022 – Categoria: Ciências humanas. Aborda o encontro entre os discursos e práticas sobre a saúde e o envelhecimento oriundos da biomedicina, da epidemiologia e da promoção da saúde com a experiência que constitui uma “tia” no mundo do samba. Com esse intuito, apresenta e analisa vivências das mulheres integrantes da Ala dos Cabelos Brancos, do Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Império Serrano, e de compositores e sambistas que integram esse universo cultural, além de dialogar com autores de diversos campos do pensamento. A partir desses depoimentos, a autora investiga como as senhoras do samba lidam com as representações e conceitos de vida saudável, e se elas demonstram algum tipo de resistência à medicalização da vida, entre outros aspectos. O conteúdo constrói um viés crítico sobre a produção e circulação de discursos e práticas ligados à medicalização da vida e sua promessa de saúde e longevidade calcada na adoção de um modo de viver baseado na hiperprevenção.
Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro
More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the "Opening" that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the seminal shifts occurring within Brazilian society as former exiles reinforced notions of civil rights and feminist thought in a nation under the iron hand of a military dictatorship that had been in place since 1964. By looking at one of the most important samba albums ever recorded (and one that also ha...
