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New World Soundings
-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, "the world's first Brazilianist,as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.
Prospero's Mirror
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Rethinking the Latin American City
A book which admits that Latin American cities are out of control - socially, economically, politically, administratively and culturally - and seeks to adjust scholarly discourse to the realities of contemporary urban phenomena. Experts presents their responses to this situation.
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy
"Haitian carnival offers a lens into popular power and politics. Political demonstrations in Haiti often manifest as musical performances. Studying carnival and political protest side by side brings insight to the musical engagement that ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians often cultivate and revere in contemporary Haiti. This book explores how the self-declared president of konpa Sweet Micky (Michel Martelly) rose to the nation's highest office while methodically crafting a political product inherently entangled with his musical product. It offers deep historical perspective on the characteristics of carnivalesque verbal play-and the performative skillset of the artist (Sweet Micky) w...
The Bandeirantes
A collection of articles tracing the history of the Brazilian Bandeirante movement.
Rural Energy To Meet Development Needs
This volume had its origin at a conference held in 1978 at the East- West Center that considered the short- and long-term energy problems of the Asia-Pacific region. That group of national energy policymakers, scientists, and technologists agreed that providing adequate energy for the rural areas of the developing countries looms large as one of the more critical problems of the region. Encouraged by this consensus, the East-West Resource Systems Institute obtained a grant from the Agency for International Development for the purpose of initiating a collaborative, multi-country study of rural energy problems. The National Research Council of Thailand and the East-West Center agreed to work closely together as twin foci for the coordination of the effort.
