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  • Theology and Tolkien

    Constructive Theology

    by Douglas Estes, João Fernando O. Barboza, Bradley K. Broadhead, Devin Brown, Lisa Coutras, Austin M. Freeman, Martina Juricková, John C. McDowell, Alison Milbank, Allan Novaes0, Jeremy M. Rios1, Adam B. Shaeffer2, Beth M. Stovell3, Julie Loveland Swanstrom4, Milton L. Torres5, Charlie Trimm6, Donald T. Williams7 ...
    The Lord of the Rings and other works of J.R.R. Tolkien have had a far-reaching impact on culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In print and on film, Tolkien's works seem to be incredible epics, but religious aspects are less obvious. Yet Tolkien himself stated in his letters that the chief conflicts of his epic works were “about God, and His sole right to divine Honour,” ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Walter Wanderley

    The "Bossa Nova" Forgotten

    by Fernando Torres ...
    This book is characterized as the result of an ethnomusicological and historical research by Recife musician Walter Wanderley (1932-1986), known as a representative of Bossa Nova. Organist, pianist, arranger and sporadic composer, Walter Wanderley has released dozens of records on record labels such as Odeon, Philips, the American company Verve and many others, both as an instrumentalist and ... Read more

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  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    by Robert Farris Thompson ...
    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    by Umi Vaughan ...
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceshows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba—planted, living like a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Tracing Tangueros

    Argentine Tango Instrumental Music

    by Kacey Link, Kristin Wendland ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years ago, authors Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland trace tango's historical and stylistic musical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Cubano Be, Cubano Bop

    One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba

    by Leonardo Acosta ...
    Translated by Daniel Whitesell ...
    Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians and composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • El Casino Y La Salsa En Cuba

    by Barbara Balbuena ...
    This is one of those books, that might be taken as essential for an understanding of the development of El Casino, the most favorite and important international cuban dance nowadays. As the music scientist Lino Arturo Neira Betancourt puts it: "The text deepens on the outstanding history of this dance and on the analysis, several evidence of its relation to contemporary Cuban popular music are ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flamenco

    Conflicting Histories of the Dance

    by Michelle Heffner Hayes ...
    This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews.Beginning with an analysis of flamenco historiography, the text examines images of the female dancer in films by Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, and Antonio Gades; stereotypes of flamenco bodies ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

    $72.99 USD

  • 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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