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Made in Brazil
Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century Brazilian popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of Brazilian music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Brazil. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Brazilian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Brazil, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Samba and Choro; History, Memory, and Representations; Scenes and Artists; and Music, Market and New Media.
Jorrar
"Jorrar", de Sergio Gaia, é uma obra poética envolvente, marcada pela sensibilidade e originalidade do autor. Com uma linguagem rica e evocativa, os poemas convidam o leitor a uma jornada emocional e reflexiva, atravessando profundas questões humanas por meio de temas como o amor, as utopias, a moral, a desumanização contemporânea pela infosfera, e mesmo as limitações da linguagem diante da necessidade expressiva. Sobre a linguagem, aliás, o autor se permite atravessar por influências tão variadas quanto John Donne, Rilke, Mallarmé, o modernismo brasileiro e a poesia concreta. A música, como sugere a própria formação de Gaia, tem especial presença ao longo da obra, seja na forma de trabalhar os ritmos e sonoridades das palavras, seja como tema específico, destacando-se aí a trilogia final Ouv'olhares. Esta primeira edição traz, ainda, desenhos a carvão feitos pelo próprio autor, adicionando novas camadas de sentido a esta obra repleta de ousadia e frescor criativo.
Rota Infinito
Em "Rota Infinito: Moacir Santos e a composição autoral", Sergio Gaia discute os principais procedimentos criativos utilizados pelo grande compositor pernambucano em quatro de suas obras: Coisa n.2, Coisa n.3, Bluishmen e Amalgamation, representando diferentes fases criativas do maestro Moacir. Servindo-se de variado repertório analítico e contando com instigantes discussões históricas e estéticas, Gaia oferece uma obra altamente relevante para músicos, compositores e para o público em geral. Como parte extra do livro, há ainda a bela "Suíte Ouro Negro – do Sertão à Califórnia", composição do próprio autor a partir dos processos criativos de Moacir Santos e que pode ser ouvida em site linkado à obra. Dessa forma, o livro não apenas lança um olhar amplo sobre Moacir Santos enquanto criador, como também oferece meios pelos quais a análise abre caminhos para novas criações autorais.
Epistemologies of the South
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in the Italian Media
The twentieth century saw a proliferation of media discourses on colonialism and, later, decolonisation. Newspapers, periodicals, films, radio and TV broadcasts contributed to the construction of the image of the African “Other” across the colonial world. In recent years, a growing body of literature has explored the role of these media in many colonial societies. As regards the Italian context, however, although several works have been published about the links between colonial culture and national identity, none have addressed the specific role of the media and their impact on collective memory (or lack thereof). This book fills that gap, providing a review of images and themes that have surfaced and resurfaced over time. The volume is divided into two sections, each organised around an underlying theme: while the first deals with visual memory and images from the cinema, radio, television and new media, the second addresses the role of the printed press, graphic novels and comics, photography and trading cards.
Planetary Mine
A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.
José Rufino
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Audacious Euphony
Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical tonality, and have accordingly unified the two repertories under a single mode of representation. Post-structuralist musicologists have challenged this belief, advancing the view that many romantic triadic progressions exceed the reach of classical syntax and are mobilized as the result of a transgressive, anti-syntactic impulse. In Audacious Euphony, author Richard Cohn takes both of these views to task, arguing that romantic harmony operates under syntactic principles distinct from those that underlie classical tonality, but no less susceptible to sys...
Virtual and Augmented Reality: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Virtual and augmented reality is the next frontier of technological innovation. As technology exponentially evolves, so do the ways in which humans interact and depend upon it. Virtual and Augmented Reality: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the trends, techniques, and uses of virtual and augmented reality in various fields, and examines the benefits and challenges of these developments. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics, such as human-computer interaction, digital self-identity, and virtual reconstruction, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for researchers, academics, professionals, theorists, students, and practitioners interested in emerging technology applications across the digital plane.
Brazilian Science Fiction
Science fiction, because of its links to science and technology, is the consummate literary vehicle for examining the perception and cultural impact of the modernization process in Brazil. Because of the centrality of the role played by the military dictatorship (1964-85) in imposing industrialization and economic development policies on Brazil, this book examines the genre in the periods before, during, and after the dictatorship, encompassing the years 1960-2000. The analysis shows that a reading of Brazilian science fiction based on its use of paradigms of Anglo-American science fiction and myths of Brazilian nationhood provides a unique look into Brazil's modern metamorphosis as it finds itself on the periphery of the globalized world.
