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Cumbia somos
De la movida sonidera mexicana a la cumbia villera argentina, de la psicodélica chicha peruana al sonido ancestral colombiano, la cumbia es un bien cultural que une e identifica a Latinoamérica. Este libro, producto del trabajo colaborativo con la Red de Periodistas Musicales de Iberoamérica, propone un repaso por las historias de músicos y bandas icónicas, desde los inicios de este género musical hasta las vanguardias más recientes. Cumbia somos recupera las peculiaridades geográficas y sociales que inciden en cada una de las aproximaciones y apropiaciones de ese lenguaje tropical expansivo y honra la multiplicidad de sonidos emanados del género: de artistas, como Totó La Mamposina, Los Ángeles Azules, Los Mirlos, Los Palmeras, Celso Piña, Yeison Landero, Gilda o Polibio Mayorga, de sellos emblemáticos, como Discos Fuentes, Codiscos y de colectivos, como Zizek, Los Pirañas y Sonido Gallo Negro. La cumbia es una banda sonora transgeneracional y multicultural, un patrimonio musical y bailable de la humanidad. ¡Que viva la cumbia y se baile por siempre!
Iberoamérica sonora
En Iberoamérica sonora encontrarás autores que proceden de urbes como Buenos Aires, Ciudad de México, Bogotá, Los Ángeles, Santiago, Caracas, Quito, Guadalajara y Medellín y que de unos meses a la fecha se reconocen a través de un diálogo frecuente que, directa o indirectamente, impulsa la difusión del trabajo de músicos como los que aquí se incluyen. No podemos negar que las formas contemporáneas de interacción –los medios sociales, la internet, los llamados teléfonos inteligentes, las revistas digitales– han revolucionado nuestro mundo. Estas páginas que tienes entre tus manos son sólo otra consecuencia de ello y el testimonio fehaciente de que la música asimismo puede trascender fronteras y gustos de la mano de quienes nos dedicamos a su estudio, su difusión y la lúdica amplificación de su magia irrefrenable.
The Struggle Against Enforced Disappearance and the 2007 United Nations Convention
Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations. It constitutes an autonomous offence and a crime under international law on account of its multiple and continuing character. It is not a phenomenon of the past, nor is it geographically limited to Latin America: such scourge is widespread today and on the increase in other continents. For more than twenty-five years, relatives of disappeared people worldwide have insisted on the pressing need for an international legally binding instrument against enforced disappearances. 2006 is the year of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances, which represents the result of several legislative and jurisprudential developments that are duly analyzed in this book. The Convention has been opened for signature in February 2007.
Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America
Documents the emergence of a pattern of political instability in Latin America. Traditional military coups have receded in the region, but elected presidents are still ousted from power as a result of recurrent crises. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán shows that presidential impeachment has become the main constitutional instrument employed by civilian elites to depose unpopular rulers. Based on detailed comparative research in five countries and extensive historical information, the book explains why crises without breakdown have become the dominant form of instability in recent years and why some presidents are removed from office while others survive in power. The analysis emphasizes the erosion of presidential approval resulting from corruption and unpopular policies, the formation of hostile coalitions in Congress, and the role of investigative journalism. This book challenges classic assumptions in studies of presidentialism and provides important insights for the fields of political communication, democratization, political behaviour, and institutional analysis.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Conditional Cash Transfers
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a way of reducing inequality and helping households break out of a vicious cycle whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by the available empirical evidence? This volume seeks to answer these and other related questions. Sp...
Latin American Classical Composers
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor errors in the first edition, adding young composers and documenting deaths since 1996, when the first edition appeared. Hundreds of composers are represented in this volume, which presents biographical data, including dates of birth and death, personal information about composers' background and training, and a selective listing of each composer's works. Sources for further study are noted within each entry. An index of composers by country rounds out this work.
