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  • The Visionary Praxis of Violeta Parra

    Music, Poetry, and Art

    by Lorna Dillon, Patricia Vilches ...
    This book examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (1917–1967). Parra perceived her multiple outputs to be unified and continuous with her own self, demonstrating unequalled artistic agency in a hybrid creative space that she personally constructed and embraced via her poetry, music, and her visual art.The Visionary Praxis of Violeta Parra: Music, ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The Other Fridas

    The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists

    by Luciana Namorato, Debora Thome, João Nemi Neto, Yamila Azize-Vargas, Mila Burns, Ben De Witte, Lorna Dillon, Maria Elva Echenique0, Luciana Carvalho Fonseca1, Gabriela Germaná2, Ann Marie Leimer3, Andrea Lepage4, Elvira Aballi Morell5, Andrea Villa Ruiz6, Rosita Scerbo7, Alysa Schroff8, Dennys Silva-Reis9, Sandra Sousa0, Anastasiya Stoyneva1 ...
    The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different countries, and seeks to understand their artistic contributions and their complex lives. Frida Kahlo is one of the most recognizable women artists of the Western world and an icon of feminism. Yet, Latin America has produced many other women artists ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Violeta Parra’s Visual Art

    Painted Songs

    by Lorna Dillon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores Violeta Parra’s visual art, focusing on her embroideries (arpilleras), paintings, papier-mâché collages and sculptures. Parra is one of Chile’s great artists and musicians, yet her visual art is relatively unknown. Her fusion of complex imagery from Chilean folk music and culture with archetypes in Western art results in a hybrid body of work. Parra’s hybridism is the story of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    by Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes ...
    Series series Reverb
    Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. In the capital’s marginal districts, it was embraced and shaped by young men who told tales of prostitutes, petty thieves and disappointed lovers through its music and movements. Chronicling the stories told through tango’s ... Read more

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

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  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Horizons

    Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

    by Abigail McEwen ...
    Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Football and Literature in South America

    by David Wood ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the world’s greatest writers and most celebrated footballers. This is the first book to undertake a systematic study of the relationship between football and literature across South America. Beginning with the first football poem published in 1899, it surveys a range of texts that address key issues in the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain

    The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen

    by Duncan Wheeler ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country’s three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la ... Read more

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  • Barcelona and Madrid

    Social Networks of the Avant-Garde

    by Aránzazu Ascunce Arenas ...
    For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid it has been, on occasion, excessively antagonistic. Over time they have each tried to demonstrate ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

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  • Delirious Consumption

    Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil

    by Sergio Delgado Moya ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in ... Read more

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