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Book Synopsis Agaves Que Cantan Rancheras by : Alejandra Zorrilla M.
Download or read book Agaves Que Cantan Rancheras written by Alejandra Zorrilla M. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Del otro lado del auricular, una voz que apenas reconozco responde, cruzo los dedos para brindar por tu éxito con un buen tequila. No sé si es la voz, los dedos cruzados, la imagen de un brindis que está a punto de suceder, el olor del éxito o el sabor de un buen tequila lo que provoca que un suspiro transparente llene mis pulmones al tiempo que un gesto peculiar interroga a mi memoria. ¿De quién es la sazón de tierra mojada que parece invadir el viaje que estoy a punto de comenzar? ¿Quién va a conducirme por los caminos de asfalto y los senderos de grava y barro de una de las regiones más mexicanas de México? ¿Con quién voy a compartir los paisajes agaveros que esperan tranquilamente el retorno de los siglos?" Una vieja amiga y un amigo nuevo van buscando respuestas mientras van paseando por los pueblos, los cerros, las veredas, los ríos, el aire y la imaginación del paisaje azul que va llenando sus ojos de jimadores, artesanos, charros y mariachis. Tal vez incluso las palabras se queden paseando... Desde 1994, y con un estilo colorido y sensual, la prosa fresca de Alejandra nos lleva por sus inagotables retratos de mundos reales e imaginarios. Este nuevo viaje por el Estado mexicano de Jalisco, nos invita a vivir una historia salpicada de música y bañada con tequila. Agaves Que Cantan Rancheras es uno de esos libros cuyo final quisiéramos retardar para poder pasear un poco más.
Author :Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca Publisher :Univ of California Press ISBN 13 :0520907019 Total Pages :557 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (29 download)
Book Synopsis Life in Mexico by : Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca
Download or read book Life in Mexico written by Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-09-30 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.
Download or read book Culture Clash written by Culture Clash and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-person troupe is unique not only for its imaginative explorations of contemporary Latin/Chicano culture but also for its vision of a society in transition.
Book Synopsis Mariachi Music in America by : Daniel Edward Sheehy
Download or read book Mariachi Music in America written by Daniel Edward Sheehy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying 50-minute CD contains examples of music discussed in the book.
Download or read book El Paso Blue written by Octavio Solis and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al has to take the rap for his pal Duane's botched robbery, but before he goes, he leaves his drunken ex-beaty queen wife Sylvie in the care of his father Jefe. In the year he is gone, Jefe and Sylvie fall in love, and when Al is granted early parole, he enlists Duane in a mad and murderous hunt for the fleeing lovers. In the course of their search, they meet China, a weird changeling who wields a water gun filled with ammonia and purports to know where his wife has been taken.
Download or read book Banda written by Helena Simonett and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of banda, a Mexican and Mexican American musical practice.
Book Synopsis Barrio Rhythm by : Steven Joseph Loza
Download or read book Barrio Rhythm written by Steven Joseph Loza and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican-American community in East Los Angeles. With the recent "Eastside Renaissance" in the area, barrio music has taken on symbolic power throughout the Southwest, yet its story has remained undocumented and virtually untold. In Barrio Rhythm, Steven Loza brings this hidden history to life, demonstrating the music's essential role in the cultural development of East Los Angeles and its influence on mainstream popular culture. Drawing from oral histories and other primary sources, as well as from appropriate representative songs, Loza provides a historical overview of the music from the nineteenth century to the present and offers in-depth profiles of nine Mexican-American artists, groups, and entrepreneurs in Southern California from the post-World War II era to the present. His interviews with many of today's most influential barrio musicians, including members of Los Lobos, Eddie Cano, Lalo Guerrero, and Willie chronicle the cultural forces active in this complex urban community.
Book Synopsis Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition by : Regina M Marchi
Download or read book Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition written by Regina M Marchi and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Day of the Dead celebrations among America's Latino communities have changed throughout history, discussing how the traditional celebration has been influenced by mass media, consumer culture, and globalization.
Book Synopsis Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza by : Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez
Download or read book Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza written by Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke. Her status as a working-class idol continues to this day, making her one of the most prominent and long-standing performers in the history of the recording industry and a champion of Chicana/o music. This bilingual edition presents Lydia Mendoza's historia in an interview between the artist and Yolanda Broyles-González: first is the English translation, then the Spanish original, as told by Mendoza herself. Broyles-González concludes the volume with an extended essay on the significance of Mendoza's career and her place in Tejana music and Chicana studies. Known as a lone artist and performer, Lydia Mendoza's voice and twelve-string guitar-playing figure prominently in her ability to both nurture and transmit the vast oral tradition of popular Mexican song with beauty and integrity. She sang the songs of the people across generations in the old tradition; all are indigenous to the Americas, and many of them to Texas. It is the music that emerged from the experiences of native peoples (on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border) within the colonial context of the nineteenth century. Mendoza's prominence and stature as a Chicana idol stems from her sustained presence and perpetual visibility within a complex network of social and cultural relations in the twentieth century. Along with being one of the earliest female recording and touring artists, she is loved as a voice of working-class sentimiento, sentiment and sentience, through song, which is one of the most cherished of Chicana/o cultural art forms. Through her vast repertoire and unmistakable interpretive skill in the shaping of songs she is a living embodiment of U.S.-Mexican culture and a participant in raza people's protracted struggles for survival.
Download or read book Subcultural Sounds written by Mark Slobin and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of subcultural musics and their cultural identities.
Download or read book Dreamlandia written by Octavio Solis and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loose retelling of Calderon's Life is a dream set along the contemporary border between Texas and Mexico, the story begins when a powerful drug smuggler banishes an undocumented midwife back across the Rio Grande and incurs a curse that gestates for 18 years. In that time, the smuggler's son Lazaro grows up alone and untrained in human interaction on a sandbar in the middle of the Rio, while the midwife's two surviving children, Blanca and Pepín, swim north across the river to exact revenge for the pain caused to their mother and to claim their birthright. All manners of border, geographic, political, gender, and metaphysical, are crossed in this struggle to know one's place in the world.
Book Synopsis Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression by : Abraham Hoffman
Download or read book Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression written by Abraham Hoffman and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1974 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Popular Music in Mexico by : Claes af Geijerstam
Download or read book Popular Music in Mexico written by Claes af Geijerstam and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico, with its elements of European and Indian cultures and diverse regional styles, has a vigorous musical tradition that influences popular music far beyond the country's borders. Since the 1920s, films and records have disseminated Mexican music throughout Latin America and the United States. This book examines the development of Mexico's popular and commercial music from the colonial period to the present. Through interviews with leading composers, promoters, and musicologists the author demonstrates how the mass entertainment media--radio, records, television, and films--influence and largely determine popular tastes in music. He shows how governmental actions and nationalism have affected Mexican music, before and since the Revolution of 1910. The author traces the complex international influences that shaped such major Mexican types of music as corridos and ranchera and norteña songs; mariachi, marimba, and norteño ensembles; and dances like the jarabe and the huapango. He finds the roots of Mexican music in Spanish folk songs and dances and European drawing-room dances, transformed by Indian traditions and African rhythms into a distinctive national style that emerged in the twentieth century. He discusses several foreign styles of music--such as the tango, the fox-trot, and the cha-cha--that have been popular in Mexico. An appendix written by Elizabeth H. Heist examines the recent emergence of Chicano music in the border area of the southwestern United States.
Book Synopsis A Legacy Greater Than Words by : Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Download or read book A Legacy Greater Than Words written by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and published by Us Latino/A WWII Oral Hist Prj Ut-Austin. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 1999 the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project at the University of Texas at Austin has videotaped more than 500 interviews throughout the country and in Puerto Rico and Mexico." "This volume, featuring summaries of interviews and thumbnail photographs of the individuals, demonstrates the vast breadth of experiences of the Latino WWII generation. The interviews are arranged by wartime experiences - on the home front, as well as in the military - followed by postwar efforts."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Culture of Empire by : Gilbert G. González
Download or read book Culture of Empire written by Gilbert G. González and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Chicano community cannot be complete without taking into account the United States' domination of the Mexican economy beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Gilbert G. González. For that economic conquest inspired U.S. writers to create a "culture of empire" that legitimated American dominance by portraying Mexicans and Mexican immigrants as childlike "peons" in need of foreign tutelage, incapable of modernizing without Americanizing, that is, submitting to the control of U.S. capital. So powerful was and is the culture of empire that its messages about Mexicans shaped U.S. public policy, particularly in education, throughout the twentieth century and even into the twenty-first. In this stimulating history, Gilbert G. González traces the development of the culture of empire and its effects on U.S. attitudes and policies toward Mexican immigrants. Following a discussion of the United States' economic conquest of the Mexican economy, González examines several hundred pieces of writing by American missionaries, diplomats, business people, journalists, academics, travelers, and others who together created the stereotype of the Mexican peon and the perception of a "Mexican problem." He then fully and insightfully discusses how this misinformation has shaped decades of U.S. public policy toward Mexican immigrants and the Chicano (now Latino) community, especially in terms of the way university training of school superintendents, teachers, and counselors drew on this literature in forming the educational practices that have long been applied to the Mexican immigrant community.
Download or read book Antifascisms written by David Ward and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.
Book Synopsis Sounding Composition by : Stephanie Ceraso
Download or read book Sounding Composition written by Stephanie Ceraso and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sounding Composition Steph Ceraso reimagines listening education to account for twenty-first century sonic practices and experiences. Sonic technologies such as audio editing platforms and music software allow students to control sound in ways that were not always possible for the average listener. While digital technologies have presented new opportunities for teaching listening in relation to composing, they also have resulted in a limited understanding of how sound works in the world at large. Ceraso offers an expansive approach to sonic pedagogy through the concept of multimodal listening—a practice that involves developing an awareness of how sound shapes and is shaped by different contexts, material objects, and bodily, multisensory experiences. Through a mix of case studies and pedagogical materials, she demonstrates how multimodal listening enables students to become more savvy consumers and producers of sound in relation to composing digital media, and in their everyday lives.
