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The Reptant Eagle
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin America’s Boom generation. He received the most prestigious awards and prizes in the world, including the Latin Civilization Award (presented by the Presidents of Brazil, Mexico, and France), the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award. During his fecund and accomplished life as a writer, literary theorist, and political analyst, Fuentes turned his attention to the major conflicts of the twentieth century – from the Second World War and the Cuban Revolution, to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the war in Vietnam, and...
Fragments of a Golden Age
DIVThe first cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power; it includes essays on popular music, unions, TV, tourism, cinema, wrestling, and illustrated magazines./div
The Mexico Reader
The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico—including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what underlies the chronic instability, violence, and economic turmoil that have characterized periods of Mexico...
Heavy Metal Music in Latin America
In Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, the editors bring together scholars engaged in the study of heavy metal music in Latin America to reflect on the heavy metal genre from a regional perspective. The contributors’ southern voices diversify metal scholarship in the global north. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethnic extermination and political persecution have shaped heavy metal music in Latin America, and how music has helped shape Latin American culture and politics.
Urban Elite Culture
Medieval towns were vibrant and complex social environments where diverse groups and lifestyles encountered and influenced each other. Surprisingly, in the study of urban archaeology, the aristocracy, one of the leading and most influential groups in medieval society, has so far been neglected. This book puts "aristocracy in towns" on the archaeological research agenda. The interdisciplinary and comparative study explores the significance and representation of aristocrats and their interaction with civic elites in sea-trading towns of the southwestern Baltic from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Essentially, however, the analysis of urban elite culture leads to discussion of a much more fundamental issue: the informative value of material culture for the investigation of social conditions. The book provides new archaeological approaches to the study of social differentiation in towns, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the complexity of urban social structures.
The Other Side
It tells about the gulf between rival crews of graffiti "writers" in the streets of L.A.
Benn's Media
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Oeuvres dramatiques
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Con sus charros cibernéticos
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.
