Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“ryan rockmore”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ryan rockmore”
Skip side bar filters

  • A Queer History of Flamenco

    Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808–2018)

    by Fernando López Rodríguez ...
    Translated by Ryan Rockmore ...
    A Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultural studies. Previous histories have provided a largely distorted image about why, where, and how people have done flamenco—as well as who has performed flamenco. Yet feminists, transvestites, butches, femmes, the Spanish Roma, disabled people, guiris, and “incomprehensible” ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    by Robert Farris Thompson ...
    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Song of Exile

    A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018

    by Joshua Alma Enslen ...
    Series Book 84 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018 is the first comprehensive study of the influence of Antônio Gonçalves Dias’s “Canção do exílio.” Written in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, “Song of Exile” has inspired thousands of parodies and pastiches, and new variations continue to appear to this day. Every generation of Brazilian ... Read more

    Free

  • Ascent to Glory

    How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

    by Álvaro Santana-Acuña ...
    Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

    $21.39 USD

  • Portrait of a Young Painter

    Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation

    by Mary Kay Vaughan ...
    In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 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

    $440.00 USD

  • Cumbia!

    Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

    Edited by Pablo Vila, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste ...
    Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Becoming Reinaldo Arenas

    Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution

    by Jorge Olivares ...
    Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The City of Musical Memory

    Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia

    by Lise A. Waxer ...
    Series series Music Culture
    Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and performance. Despite their geographic distance from the Caribbean and from Hispanic Caribbean migrants in New York City, Calenos (people from Cali) ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Contemporary Dance in Cuba

    Tecnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement

    by Suki John ...
    The lens of dance can provide a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban experience. Cuban contemporary dance, or tecnica cubana as it is known throughout Latin America, is a highly evolved hybrid of ballet, North American modern dance, Afro-Cuban tradition, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. Unlike most dance forms, tecnica was created intentionally with government backing. For Cuba, a ... Read more

    $21.39 USD