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The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"? Reconstructing how this category came to be, author Pablo Palomino tells the dynamic history of the modernization of musical practices in Latin America. He focuses on the intellectual, commercial, musicological, and diplomatic actors that spurred these changes in the region between the 1920s and the 1960s, offering a transnational story based on primary sources from countries in and outside of Latin America. The Invention of Latin Ameri...
A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he describes. An important part of this work is a study of the Minas Conspiracy of 1788-89.
Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.
This is an introduction for academics, students, and poltical analysts to some of the latest trends in the study and state of culture and international history: modernity, NGOs, internationalism, cultural violence, the 'Romance of Resistance', and the culture of diplomacy.
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Portugal and Brazil in Transition was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography, the fine arts, music, and natural science. Taken as a whole, the contents demonstrate the...
Das mehrbändige Werk Quellen zur Geschichte emigrierter Musiker 1933-1950 verzeichnet Sammlungen von Dokumenten zur Musikgeschichte des Exils, die zum großen Teil bisher weder ediert noch in publizierten Verzeichnissen katalogisiert sind. Die Bände sind nach Regionen gegliedert: Band 1: Kalifornien liegt bereits vor, mit Band 2: New York wird ein weiterer wichtiger Schwerpunkt der Emigration erschlossen. Jeder Band erfasst Sammlungen von Dokumenten an Standorten der jeweiligen Region. Die Quellen -- z. B. Reisedokumente, Schriften, Verträge, Tagebücher, insbesondere aber Briefe -- werden inhaltlich über ein Schlagwortverzeichnis erschlossen. Erfasst sind Dokumente zur Verfolgung und zum Emigrationsweg, zum Wirken der Emigranten in ihrer neuen Heimat, zur Reflexion der Exilsituation, zu Ereignissen der Zeitgeschichte und nicht zuletzt zum Musikleben in der Emigration. Im Anhang jedes Bandes werden ausgewählte Quellen abgedruckt, die die Bedingungen des Exils und die unterschiedlichen Lebenswege der Musiker veranschaulichen.