Bachata

Bachata
Author: Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781566393003

Defining Bachata -- Music and Dictatorship -- The Birth of Bachata -- Power, Representation, and Identity -- Love, Sex, and Gender -- From the Margins to the Mainstream -- Conclusions.

Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939

Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939
Author: Basilio Serrano
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1491747706

Musicians from Puerto Rico played a substantial role in the development of jazz during the early years of the twentieth century, before and during the years surrounding the Harlem Renaissance. These jazz pioneers, including instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists, were products of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States and contributed to the early history of this uniquely American genre. In this study, author Basilio Serrano provides a detailed look at the lives of these men and women and their contributions to the development of jazz and Latin jazz. Serrano explores how the music of Puerto Rico helped to shape them and offers a comprehensive review of the bands in which they played, studying specialists in a variety of instruments as well as band leaders and composers. This group included notable figures such as Fernando Arbello, the Bayron sisters, the Rivera family, Louis King Garcia, Joe Loco, Juan and Paco Tizol, Augusto and Willie Rodriguez, Augusto Coen, and Cesar Concepcion. Covering a period from 1900 to 1939, Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 19001939 presents the stories of early Puerto Rican jazz musicians whose contributions to the genre have previously been overlooked.

Jazz en Dominicana - Las Entrevistas 2022

Jazz en Dominicana - Las Entrevistas 2022
Author: Fernando Rodriguez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789360161286

Este libro, el cuarto en la serie de Entrevistas de Jazz en Dominicana (2019, 2020, 2021 y ahora 2022), contiene 10 conversaciones sostenidas con músicos en el año 2022. Las preguntas se articularon con un esquema simple y orgánico, que logró conducir a respuestas concretas, sacando a la luz la diversidad de criterios y dando particularidad a cada diálogo; estos, una vez más, abren una ventana que permite una mirada hacia la escena actual del jazz en la República Dominicana. El libro está publicado en español e inglés, e incluye códigos QR (Respuesta Rápida), que los lectores pueden escanear y escuchar la música de cada músico entrevistado. This book, the fourth in the Jazz en Dominicana: The Interviews series (2019, 2020, 2021 and now 2022), contains 10 conversations held with musicians in the year 2022. The questions were articulated with a simple and organic scheme, which managed to lead to concrete answers, bringing out the diversity of criteria and giving particularity to each dialogue; these, once again, open a window that allows a look into the current jazz scene of the Dominican Republic. The book is published in Spanish and English, and is integrated with QR Codes (Quick Response), which the readers may scan and listen to the music of each interviewed musician.

Jazz en Dominicana: Las Entrevistas 2022

Jazz en Dominicana: Las Entrevistas 2022
Author: Fernando Rodriguez De Mondesert
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2023-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9357709983

This book, the fourth in the Jazz en Dominicana: The Interviews series (2019, 2020, 2021 and now 2022), contains 10 conversations held with musicians in the year 2022. The questions were articulated with a simple and organic scheme, which managed to lead to concrete answers, bringing out the diversity of criteria and giving particularity to each dialogue; these, once again, open a window that allows a look into the current jazz scene of the Dominican Republic. The book is published in Spanish and English, and is integrated with QR Codes (Quick Response), which the readers may scan and listen to the music of each interviewed musician.

Decolonizing Diasporas

Decolonizing Diasporas
Author: Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810142449

Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez juxtaposes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic diasporic artists, analyzing work by Nelly Rosario, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Donato Ndongo, Junot Díaz, Aracelis Girmay, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ernesto Quiñonez, Christina Olivares, Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng, Ibeyi, Daniel José Older, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Figueroa-Vásquez’s study reveals the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression, including public and intimate forms of domination, sexual and structural violence, sociopolitical and racial exclusion, and the haunting remnants of colonial intervention. Figueroa-Vásquez contends that these diasporic literatures reveal violence but also forms of resistance and the radical potential of Afro-futurities. This study centers the cultural productions of peoples of African descent as Afro-diasporic imaginaries that subvert coloniality and offer new ways to approach questions of home, location, belonging, and justice.

A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Author: Mark Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 113411091X

An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

Cuba and Its Music

Cuba and Its Music
Author: Ned Sublette
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2007-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1569764204

This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in which the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the "claves" appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are revealed. Music lovers will follow this journey from Andalucia, the Congo, the Calabar, Dahomey, and Yorubaland via Cuba to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, New York, and Miami. The music is placed in a historical context that considers the complexities of the slave trade; Cuba's relationship to the United States; its revolutionary political traditions; the music of Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Vodu; and much more.

The Scarlet Professor

The Scarlet Professor
Author: Barry Werth
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2002-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385494696

During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal of several friends. An utterly absorbing chronicle, The Scarlet Professor deftly captures the essence of a conflicted man and offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism.

Merengue

Merengue
Author: Paul Austerlitz
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1997-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781566394840

Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures.

Salsa Talks

Salsa Talks
Author: Mary Kent
Publisher:
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780976499008

SUPERANNO A celebration of salsa music chronicles the lives of more than forty salsa musical giants. Singers, musicians, and experts guide us around the spicy world of salsa in this educational, historic, entertaining, touching legacy from the musicians to their fans. Learn about the most important unifying element of the Hispanic culture--its music--in a departure from the more straight-laced, historical or musicological fare with more than 300 photographs.