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Fado, often described as 'urban folk music', emerged from the streets of Lisbon in the mid-nineteenth century and went on to become Portugal's 'national' music during the twentieth. It is known for its strong emphasis on loss, memory and nostalgia within its song texts, which often refer to absent people and places. One of the main lyrical themes of fado is the city itself. Fado music has played a significant role in the interlacing of mythology, history, memory and regionalism in Portugal in the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Elliott considers the ways in which fado songs bear witness to the city of Lisbon, in relation to the construction and maintenance of the local. Elliott explores the ways in which fado acts as a cultural product reaffirming local identity via recourse to social memory and an imagined community, while also providing a distinctive cultural export for the dissemination of a 'remembered Portugal' on the global stage.
The book integrates texts prepared by a single author and is based on a variety of fundamental concepts and instruments applied in investment decisions from a diversity of texts. The book approaches investment decisions from the perspective of the financial system and economic agents (which can be investors and borrowers of funds, firms, or individuals). The wide variety of assets available is one of the reasons why new methods for managing an investment portfolio often emerge. Thus, by opting for a more comprehensive approach, it is possible to cover a more comprehensive range of financial assets and investment strategies. As this is a compilation of articles, the 24 chapters cover topics such as the globalization of markets, leverage and working capital in corporate finance, asset and liability management and corporate hedging, investment decisions and business valuation, besides concepts and applications of macro and microeconomics.
Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil
This is the unbelievable true story of Danny Hawkins's life journey, starting from the Missouri Foster Care System. He overcame the hurt, trauma, and abuse of the past in order to build a future of an accomplished life, which took him to Mexico, Brazil, and back to the United States. You will read about the child abuse, sexual abuse, murder, suicide attempts, crime, revenge, hate, and love that Danny Hawkins lived through as a four-year-old child and as a broken and tormented teen, abandoned and crying out for help. Through his words, you will live and experience his nightmares and also live through his successes. You will travel with him to Mexico and Brazil and back. His life will become your life. His journey will become your journey. When you finish this book, you will say, "Unbelievable!"
Following the format of the journal, the texts, in three parts, testify musical experience in different representations, from elementary school practices to music festivals and resident chamber music, mentioning categories accepted in the Portuguese society, among others, referring to the popular, folk/world and art music.
"This publication presents a methodology for participative informal settlement upgrading with the support of information technology, the result of research and development activities carried out by UNCHS (Habitat) and a group of partners. Examining a number of experiences in the field, and through direct support to specific tool development activities, Habitat aims to consolidate a wealth of practical and field experiences into a methodological framework. The methodology refers to the project preparation phase, including community involvement protocols, and the information management system related to it. This methodology should be seen as a practical reference framework for programme managers and officials involved in designing and managing settlement upgrading projects and should assist policy makers and external support agencies in policy formulation and resource allocation. It will also provide a technical background to the Global Campaigns for Secure Tenure and for Good Urban Governance that UNCHS (Habitat) is launching in the year 2000"--p. 3.
O segundo volume de História da música popular brasileira – sem preconceitos traz um mapeamento completo desde o fim dos anos 1970 até o início dos anos 2020. Rodrigo Faour, já no primeiro volume de História da música popular brasileira, alertava que não existe apenas uma música popular brasileira, e sim várias, todas do seu próprio jeito. Enquanto o livro anterior abordava a história da música desde de 1500 até os anos 1970 e tratava de ritmos como choro, samba, marchinha, valsa, frevo, carimbó, samba-rock, pagode, forró, sertanejo, brega etc., este segundo volume compreende pouco mais de quarenta anos: do final transgressor dos explosivos anos 1970, quando houve um grande...
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