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Violent Acts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Violent Acts

Albuquerque analyzes the use of violence in Latin American theatre from the 1950s through the 1980s. He argues that in the face of repression and torture, some playwrights counter victimization with art as urgent as street confrontation. A study from both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

SamBop NYC
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

SamBop NYC

Written for general readers and scholars alike, SamBop NYC explores Brazilian jazz in New York City--the music, musicians, cultural issues, and jazz industry. Blending American and Brazilian music, these musicians continue the legacies of bossa nova, samba jazz, and other styles, while expanding their skills, cultural understandings, and identities. The book draws on interviews with over fifty musicians, including Eliane Elias, Dom Salvador, Eumir Deodato, Maúcha Adnet, Vinícius Cantuária, Luciana Souza, Romero Lubambo, and Anat Cohen.

Becoming Brazilian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Becoming Brazilian

This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.

Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom

At a time of transformation in the music history classroom and amid increasing calls to teach a global music history, Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom adds nuance to the teaching of varied musical traditions by examining the places where they intersect and the issues of musical exchange and appropriation that these intersections raise. Troubling traditional boundaries of genre and style, this collection of essays helps instructors to denaturalize the framework of Western art music and invite students to engage with other traditions—vernacular, popular, and non-Western—on their own terms. The book draws together contributions by a wide range of active scholar...

Tentative Transgressions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Tentative Transgressions

Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Albuquerque examines the way the Modernist movement both fueled and inhibited the use of gay imagery in Brazilian drama. This elegant and fluid study ultimately becomes an examination of a whole Latin society, and the ways in which Latin theatre has absorbed and reflected the culture's own changing sensibilities, that will intrigue anyone interested in Latin American culture, literature, or theater. Winner, 2008 Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize

National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Poesia visual em Alagoas
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 136

Poesia visual em Alagoas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: UFAL

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Library of Congress Name Headings with References
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 952

Library of Congress Name Headings with References

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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HAPI Thesaurus and Name Authority, 1975-1977
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

HAPI Thesaurus and Name Authority, 1975-1977

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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HAPI Thesaurus and Name Authority
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

HAPI Thesaurus and Name Authority

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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