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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “erin e bauer”
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  • Flaco’s Legacy

    The Globalization of Conjunto

    by Erin E. Bauer ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced the genre and the work of conjunto masters like Flaco Jiménez and Mingo Saldívar.Erin E. Bauer follows conjunto from its local origins through three processes of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice

    by Kyra D. Gaunt, Steven Loza, Charlotte W. Heth, Paul Austerlitz, Katie J. Graber, Darci Sprengel, Ho Chak Law, Alexandria Carrico, Erin E. Bauer, Rebekah E. Moore ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change?A strong collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice studies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and differing abilities. Ethnographic work from a range of theoretical frameworks uncovers and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The World of Lucha Libre

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    by Heather Levi, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
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  • Living in Spanglish

    The Search for Latino Identity in America

    by Ed Morales ...
    Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano.To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Edited by Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

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  • Hello, Hello Brazil

    Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    by Bryan McCann ...
    “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann ... Read more

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  • Cosmopolitanisms

    by Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Read more

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  • Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House

    Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition

    by Alicia Gaspar de Alba ...
    In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U.S.This book presents the first interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Listening in Detail

    Performances of Cuban Music

    by Alexandra T. Vazquez ...
    Series series Refiguring american music
    Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market consumption. Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that ... Read more

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  • 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

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    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

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