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by Margaret Randall
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains...
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship
Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes...
Art and Social Movements
Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to...
Audible Empire
Music, Global Politics, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through...
Gesture and Power
Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis,...
Mexican American Mojo
Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican...
by Helio Orovio
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With...
Rites of Realism
Essays on Corporeal Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions. These essays by a range...
Below the Line
Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki Mayer considers the work of television set assemblers, soft-core...
by Herman Lebovics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
In this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary relevance: empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. These essays, which Lebovics wrote over the past decade, demonstrate the impressive intellectual...
Kids Rule!
Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer,...
by Roger Chartier
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins”...
Animacies
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the...