Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “morgan james luker”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Tango Machine

    Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

    by Morgan James Luker ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    In Argentina, tango isn’t just the national music—it’s a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn’t been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by tracing the many ways Argentina draws upon tango as a resource for a wide array of economic, social, and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • 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

    $32.99 CAD

  • 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

    $22.99 CAD

  • Music and Youth Culture in Latin America

    Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires

    Edited by Pablo Vila ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaetón, the musical manifestations that young people listen to in most Latin American countries are much more varied than these commercially successful ones that have entered the American ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Populism in Latin America

    Second Edition

    by Michael L. Conniff, Jorge Basurto, Steve Ellner, Joel Horowitz, William Francis Robinson, Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, Steve Stein, Kurt Weyland, Paul Drake, Dr. Kenneth Roberts, Ph.D0 ...
    A scholarly analysis of the origins, evolution, and enduring impact of populism in Latin American political life.This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.For more than one hundred years—from the beginning of the twentieth to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

    by Susanna B. Hecht ...
    A "compelling and elegantly written" history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aurality

    Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

    by Ana María Ochoa Gautier ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her "acoustically tuned" analysis of a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Salsa Rising

    New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation

    by Juan Flores ...
    In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was the stuff of legend, while modern-day music history was being made as the masters of Afro-Cuban and jazz idiom conspired to create ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Carioca

    Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

    by Frederick Moehn ...
    Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Contested Communities

    Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951

    by Thomas Miller Klubock ...
    Series series Comparative and international working-class history
    In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

    by Gerhard Kubik ...
    The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD