Book Description
Offers a portrait of the ups and downs in one couple's relationship and the struggle of one elderly man to be free
Author : Robert James Waller
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1996-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446602730
Offers a portrait of the ups and downs in one couple's relationship and the struggle of one elderly man to be free
Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199876118
Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora," etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.
Author : Leo Rangell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429916418
This book turns out to have a scientific relevance and value that will similarly interest many, not only those in the specialized field of neuroscience but very individual who has a brain and a mind and wonders about them.
Author : James Leggio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135669627
Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.
Author : Jim Lynch
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307271900
Set in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate about bird-watching, Brandon has a hard time mustering enthusiasm for his new job as a Border Patrol agent guarding thirty miles of largely invisible boundary. But to everyone’s surprise, he excels at catching illegal immigrants, and as drug runners, politicians, surveillance cameras, and a potential sweetheart flock to this scrap of land, Brandon is suddenly at the center of something much bigger than himself. A magnificent novel of birding, smuggling, farming and extraordinary love, Border Songs welcomes us to a changing community populated with some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction.
Author : Nicholas John Cull
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780826333766
The critically acclaimed 110-minute film Alambrista (1977) depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border. For this release, a group of scholars has packaged a new director's cut of the film with a book of essays devoted to immigration and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and an enhanced CD of the sound track.
Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780815324805
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Alfred Publishing Staff
Publisher : Warner Bros. Publications
Page : pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2001-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780757902284
Wherever music is taught, this decorative timeline should be on the wall! This beautiful full-color banner is over 16 feet long! A handy teacher's reference booklet is included so the teacher can read composer information at a glance. There are five sections that may be displayed together or separately: 1) Late Renaissance / Baroque 2) Classical 3) Romantic 4) Early to Mid-Twentieth Century 5) Mid- to Late Twentieth Century. * Highlights music history from the Renaissance to present day * Includes classical, rock, pop, and jazz greats * Shows dates of famous composers and musicians * Describes briefly each person's importance in music history * Includes portraits or photographs of most musicians * Defines many musical terms to help beginning students * Decorates the classroom while educating at the same time * Provides a great reference to enhance other studies * Includes a handy teacher reference about the musicians.
Author : José David Saldívar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520918363
Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.
Author : Joanna Ho
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780062994547
The New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho, delivers a poignant picture book biography about the musician Yo-Yo Ma, immigration, and using music to build bridges. Joanna Ho's lyrical writing and Teresa Martinez's vibrant art weave together to tell an inspiring story of Yo-Yo Ma, who challenges conventions, expectations, and beliefs in order to build bridges to unite communities, people, and cultures. A beautiful picture book biography to enjoy and share in the home and the classroom. Before Yo-Yo Ma became one of the most renowned and celebrated cellists, he wanted to play the double bass. But it was too big for his four-year-old hands. Over time, Ma honed his amazing talent, and his music became a reflection of his own life between borders, cultures, disciplines, and generations. Since then, he has recorded over a hundred albums, won nineteen Grammy Awards, performed for eight American presidents, and received the National Medal of the Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, just to name a few accomplishments. Staying true to himself, Yo-Yo Ma performed at the US-Mexico border at the Rio Grande on April 13, 2019, as part of his multi-continent "Bach Project" tour to prove a point--through music, we can build bridges rather than walls between different cultures.