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Book Synopsis Inca Music Reimagined by : Vera Wolkowicz
Download or read book Inca Music Reimagined written by Vera Wolkowicz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom in archaeological explorations, within a general climate of scientific positivism provided Latin Americans with new information about their grandiose former civilizations, such as the Inca and the Aztec, which some argued were comparable to ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures. These discourses were at first political, before transitioning to the cultural sphere. As a result, artists and particularly musicians began to move away from European techniques and themes, to produce a distinctive and self-consciously Latin American art. In Inca Music Reimagined author Vera Wolkowicz explores Inca discourses in particular as a source for the creation of national and continental art music during the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on operas by composers from Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. To understand this process, Wolkowicz analyzes early twentieth-century writings on Inca music and its origins and describes how certain composers transposed Inca techniques into their own works, and how this music was perceived by local audiences. Ultimately, she argues that the turn to Inca culture and music in the hopes of constructing a sense of national unity could only succeed within particular intellectual circles, and that the idea that the inspiration of the Inca could produce a music of America would remain utopian.
Book Synopsis Pariah in the Desert by : Todd S. Garth
Download or read book Pariah in the Desert written by Todd S. Garth and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga’s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic—a lens elaborated in part by means of Quiroga’s own disquisitions on the subject—and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This lens serves to elucidate many evidently obscure and self-contradictory aspects of Quiroga’s work and its relation to the context in which he lived. That context included the neo-colonial social and economic milieu of Argentina’s fast-changing, immigrant-charged, increasingly materialistic society; the growing influence of foreign cultural discourses, particularly Hollywood film; the conflict between the genders in a society that embraced modernity but resisted changes in gender roles; the weight of new scientific discourses, especially Darwinian evolution, in social and political thought; and the impact on pedagogical theory and practice of these multiple changing discourses. This study discloses the extraordinary range of Quiroga’s work, which includes erotic romance, science fiction and fantasy, psychological occult, social satire, a great variety of juvenile literature, outdoor adventure and—most familiar to readers in the United States—gothic and naturalist horror. The book concludes that Quiroga’s consistent imperative of the heroic is essential to reconciling these various, evidently incompatible aspects of Quiroga’s poetics, revealing its theoretical and ethical coherence.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals by : Chloë Taylor
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals written by Chloë Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses. Comprising fifty chapters, the book explores a range of debates and scholarship within important contemporary topics such as companion animals, hunting, agriculture, and animal activist strategies. It also offers timely analyses of zoonotic disease pandemics, mass extinction, and the climate catastrophe, using perspectives including feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, and masculinities studies. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an essential reference for students in gender studies, sexuality studies, human-animal studies, cultural studies, sociology, and environmental studies.
Book Synopsis Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life by : Vanessa Lemm
Download or read book Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life written by Vanessa Lemm and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Latin American Studies by :
Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Download or read book Serials in the British Library written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jaap Bakema and the Open Society by :
Download or read book Jaap Bakema and the Open Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaap Bakema and the Open Society' is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect and the remarkable production of his office Van den Broek and Bakema. His ideas on the open society are extremely relevant to the current debates about how to involve citizens in city building and creating alternative systems to crumbling welfare states. This historical document will highlight both his most relevant and less known work through texts, archival materials and photography. The book contains interviews with his contemporaries such as John Habraken and Herman Hertzberger and essays that each emphasize a different aspect of his work and the context in which it came into being.
Book Synopsis La Vida en Gajos by : Manuel Rivera Sandoval
Download or read book La Vida en Gajos written by Manuel Rivera Sandoval and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Vida en Gajos el autor la define como una mini-autobiografía que tiene como objetivo principal motivar a la niñez, la juventud, a los débiles de espíritu y a las futuras generaciones para que aprendan que todo es posible en la vida. Con sacrificios, limitaciones, esfuerzos, sudor y lágrimas se logran los objetivos. "El ser humano es la creación perfecta de la Naturaleza y el Todo Poderoso nos proveyó fuerza, inteligencia y Don de triunfo en cualquier Ambito sobre la faz de la Tierra. Para el hombre no hay distancias, tampoco imposibles. Se ha logrado cruzar mares y montañas; alcanzar cimas y profundidades; tampoco creo en el diablo o los fantasmas. Para mí sólo existe un Dios y Vida hasta que él nos la quite", declara el autor de La Vida en Gajos, Manuel Rivera Sandoval. El libro lleva este título porque está redactado dividido en capítulos, trozos o gajitos, que definen etapas muy variadas y cortas de la vida del autor. Rivera Sandoval nació en una familia humilde y hoy disfruta de las comodidades de la tecnología moderna. Era analfabeto con dieciséis años, pero con mucho esfuerzo personal sin tener ningún apoyo familiar, terminó los estudios universitarios. Practicó la declamación, la oratoria, el periodismo y aspiró navegar por los senderos de la política. Ahora que ya ha llegado a la tercera edad, plasmar sus experiencias sobre papel y publica La Vida en Gajos con ayuda de la editorial Palibrio, para llegar a los corazones de la gente con la increíble historia de su vida.
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Book Synopsis Variations on the Body by : María Ospina
Download or read book Variations on the Body written by María Ospina and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A constellation of short stories illustrate the intersecting lives of women on various peripheries of society in and around Bogotá, Colombia. In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and faces the new violence of an editor co-opting her experiences. A woman adrift in the city she left as a child looks for someone to care for, even if it has to be by force, while another documents a flea infestation with a catalog of the marks on her flesh. A little girl copes with her anxiety about the adult world by exacting revenge on her nanny, who she thinks belongs to her. Combining humor, heartbreak, and unexpected violence, Ospina constructs a keen reflection on the body as a simultaneous vehicle of connection and alienation in vibrant, gleaming prose.
Book Synopsis Post-Digital Print by : Alessandro Ludovico
Download or read book Post-Digital Print written by Alessandro Ludovico and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology is now a normal part of everyday life. The mutation of music and film into bits and bytes, downloads and streams is now taken for granted. For the world of book and magazine publishing however, this transformation has only just begun. Still, the vision of this transformation is far from new. For more than a century now, avant-garde artists, activists and technologists have been anticipating the development of networked and electronic publishing. Although in hindsight the reports of the death of paper were greatly exaggerated, electronic publishing has now certainly become a reality. How will the analog and the digital coexist in the post-digital age of publishing? How will they transition, mix and cross over? In this book, Alessandro Ludovico rereads the history of the avant-garde arts as a prehistory of cutting through the so-called dichotomy between paper and electronics. Ludovico is the editor and publisher of Neural, a magazine for critical digital culture and media arts. For more than 20 years now, he has been working at the cutting edge (and the outer fringes) of both print publishing and politically engaged digital art.
Book Synopsis Ladrones de Tierras by : Vicente Pardo Suárez
Download or read book Ladrones de Tierras written by Vicente Pardo Suárez and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Figuras del pensamiento by : Michel Serres
Download or read book Figuras del pensamiento written by Michel Serres and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Pero quién es este zurdo que cojea? ¿Y si fuera el mismo Michel Serres? En este libro Michel Serres lleva a cabo el balance del trabajo de toda una vida. A sus 84 años escribe un libro sobre la invención y sobre el ingenio humano. Serres repasa en estas páginas las principales figuras del pensamiento y nos muestra cómo han influido en su obra filósofos como Nietzsche o Sócrates. Michel Serres nos describe la forma en que ha creado sus libros desde los comienzos con Hermes, hasta su más reciente Pulgarcita, pasando por sus obras Atlas, el Tercero Instruido y el Parásito. A través de los personajes y los objetos propios de sus obras consiguen encarnar a las principales figuras del pensamiento. En este libro, Michel Serres reflexiona sobre lo digital y lo humano, sobre sus límites y su esencia. Figuras del pensamiento es una síntesis antropológica, histórica y científica que busca hilos de conexión entre el presente y el futuro de la humanidad pero siempre desde las obras o el pensamiento de Michel Serres.
Book Synopsis Restoration of Tropical Forest Ecosystems by : Helmut Lieth
Download or read book Restoration of Tropical Forest Ecosystems written by Helmut Lieth and published by Springer. This book was released on 1914 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of the tropical forests continues rapidly. We all know that this has global, ecological and economic consequences. The problem is of such magnitude that it can only be compared to warfare. The destruction of tropical forests is both detrimental to the global ecology as well as posing a serious threat to the people living in these areas. Furthermore, the overutilization of such a valuable resource poses a serious threat to the next generations. Besides the problem generated for the people in these regions, and for the earth in general, there is a moral obligation to preserve the vast biological diversity in the tropical forests. We have a commitment to all species on earth as well as man and, therefore, need to preserve as many as possible, if not all. This book discusses the problem from different angles: from forestry, ecology and nature conservation. The two main problem areas are: first the wise utilization of that portion of the forest which will be used - especially the introduction of planned forestry in such areas and second the development of a good plan for nature conservation in the tropics.
Download or read book Cvltvra written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anaquel Escondido by : Carlos I. Meirovich
Download or read book Anaquel Escondido written by Carlos I. Meirovich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Misterio En El Pueblo by : Ismael Perez
Download or read book Misterio En El Pueblo written by Ismael Perez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un policía al iniciar su turno de patrullaje, se encuentra con alguien de su pasado, un pasado que no logra olvidar y que lo atormenta. Instantes después le brinda ayuda a una Señora en la carretera, la extraña actitud de la Dama que es la misa de la persona con quien nuestro protagonista se cruzo anteriormente, le genera sospechas que su instinto policial le exige investigar. Al terminar su turno de patrullaje nuestro protagonista de nombre Gerardo decide aprovechar su tiempo libre para visitar el Pueblo de donde es originaria la Señora de la carretera. Gerardo descubrirá una realidad inimaginable que estremecerá a todas las Personas de la localidad. Una historia tan atroz que habrá personas que harán todo lo posible por mantenerla en secreto.
