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“ruth hellier”

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  • Social Voices

    The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Ruth Hellier, Anthony Seeger, Treva B. Lindsey, Nancy Guy, Carol Muller, Elijah Wald, Andrew Simon, John Lie0, Eric Lott1, Christina D Abreu2, Carol Silverman3, Michael K Bourdaghs4, Kwame Dawes5, Natalie Sarrazin6, Katherine Meizel7 ...
    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Performing Palimpsest Bodies

    Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico

    by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco ...
    Proposing the innovative concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theatre and performance experiments that explore issues of cultural memory, bodies of history, archives, repertoires and performing remains, Ruth Hellier-Tinoco offers an in-depth analysis of four postdramatic and transdisciplinary collective creation theatre projects. Combined with ideas of postmemory and rememory, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Performance

    by Diana Taylor ...
    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Theatre and Cartographies of Power

    Repositioning the Latina/o Americas

    by Violeta Luna, Jorge Dubatti, Ileana Diéguez, Patricio Vallejo Aristizábal, Gustavo Ott, Gad Guterman1, Brian Eugenio Herrera3, Diana Taylor4, Migdalia Cruz5, Diego La Hoz6, Virginia Grise8, Katherine Zien9, Carlos Cortez Minchillo0, Concepción León Mora2, Debra A. Castillo3, Elaine Romero4, Beatriz Rizk5, Roxana Avila Harper6, Diego Aramburo7, Ana Correa8, April Sweeney9, Astrid Hadad0, Eberto B. García Abreu2, Claudio Valdés Kuri4, Jean Graham-Jones6, Alma Martinez7, Natalie Alvarez8, Josefina Báez9, Jorge Huerta0, Guillermo Verdecchia1 ...
    Translated by Anna White-Nockleby, Alejandra Marín Pineda, J. Engel Szwaja Franken, Paul Carranza0, Gad Guterman2, Armando Garcia7, Kevin G. McDonald1, Judith Iliana Villanueva1, Martha Herrera-Lasso3, Hector Garza5 ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have been constructed throughout the Americas. Essays bridge political, racial, gender, class, and national ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    by Karl Erik Schollhammer ...
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico

    Edited by Edward R. Burian ...
    Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora

    Setting the Tent Against the House

    by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera ...
    As an island—a geographical space with mutable and porous borders—Cuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migration and exile have always informed the Cuban experience, and loss and displacement have figured as central preoccupations among Cuban artists and intellectuals. A major expression of this experience is the unconventional, multi-generational, itinerant, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film

    Crossroads Visions

    by Jesse Barker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and emotion—rather than identity—as the core elements of existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Barcelona

    Visual Culture, Space and Power

    Edited by Helena Buffery, Carlota Caulfield ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day. ... Read more

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  • REMEX

    Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era

    by Amy Sara Carroll ...
    REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US borderlands, Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and collective art practices, recasting NAFTA as the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Films of Elias Querejeta

    A Producer of Landscapes

    by Tom Whittaker ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    The Films of Elias Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain's most important producer. Through their recurring emphasis on landscape, his films have consistently documented a country in the grip of modernization from the 1960s to the present day. In particular, this book investigates the ways in which landscape in his productions can be ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus