... Casa de las Américas Gabriel García Márquez Mario Vargas Llosa Isabel Parra New Song Movement ...

... at the forefront of art’s role in social change. Moments of conflict are highlighted. Casa de las Américas Gabriel García Márquez Mario Vargas Llosa Isabel Parra New Song Movement ...

... Chapter 1 focuses on various renditions of “The Huckle-Buck,” the top-selling R&B hit of 1949. The song’s movement through the record industry occurred in tandem with the proliferation of the LP as a medium for popular music. Between 1950 and 1955, jazz became the only music played by Black...

... This chapter describes how country music has come to occupy a distinct and privileged place in Aboriginal public culture, sounding an expressive counterpoint to Aboriginal urbanization, labor migration, and other forms of movement and mobility. For decades now country music performers have...

...Anatomy of a Salsa Boom, 1964–1979 Chapter 1 takes as its point of departure the film Our Latin Thing, a musical documentary of the legendary Fania-All Stars 1971 concert at New York’s Cheetah Lounge. With a vision that extended beyond salsa to “the culture that was behind the music,” first...

... Chapter 5 examines the career of folksinger Mercedes Sosa. Sosa was a founding member of the leftist Movimiento Nuevo Cancionero (New Songbook movement), which combined traditional song forms with sophisticated poetry and an emphasis on social themes. But this affiliation failed to win her large...

... quietly if the conflict would bring a new world war, dissent was expressed in surveys and songs, from the pulpit and on the shop floor. A focus on dissent centers those who saw the struggle for racial justice inside the United States as bound up in the self-determination of people abroad. Korean War...

...Neoliberalism and Lowland Ascendancy When Víctor Paz Estenssoro began his fourth and final term as president in August 1985, his Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) government inherited an economy in a staggering state of crisis. Although hyperinflation was the biggest concern, Bolivia...

... as an example of a musical tricontinental solidary in the face of American imperialism. transpacific world music New Left Asian American movement tricontinental ...

... Rio de Janeiro to Paris and New York, hopes for racial uplift and unity inspired the African American performer and activist Etta Moten Barnett to play Houston’s songs, and tangled currents of race and nation made a group of Afro-Brazilians return to Houston’s work at the turn to the twentieth century...

... on the marginalized and exploited. Second, in a number of Latin American countries, new indigenous movements began gaining ground. Bolivia was one of the earliest such cases, with its predominantly Aymara indianista and katarista currents. Since the 1990s, such convergences and emphases have contributed toward so...

.... The movement subverts normative economic transactions so often unchallenged in increasingly gentrified cities. The chapter highlights travesti, a gender identity in Brazil that refers to someone who identifies with the female gender but does not identify as a woman nor seek to change their genitalia. The word...

... if the conflict would bring a new world war, dissent was expressed in surveys and songs, from the pulpit and on the shop floor. A focus on dissent centers those who saw the struggle for racial justice inside the United States as bound up in the self-determination of people abroad. Korean War African...

... such as those featured in Billboard . Brackett suggests that on one level—consisting of songs in the late 1940s of the greatest measurable popularity—a sense of continuity can be heard with swing-based popular music from earlier in the decade. On a subtler level, however, during this period a decrease...

... that this “old” media, particularly in the rich transmedia landscape of Bangtan Universe and K-Pop in general, produces new ways of experiencing the audio and visual experiences of the songs and videos, which further enrich the fans’ engagement and memory of the original material. graphic lyric books...

... and their political allies. In battling adversaries in local power structures, the Indian movement in fact pursued sophisticated legal and political strategies, seeking to cultivate relations with progressive state authorities in the legislative and even the executive branches of government. In the document...

... Pact, which isolated the trade-union movement. His government initiated a new cycle of de facto authoritarian and anticommunist regimes that would last until the restoration of democracy in 1982. Barrientos composed “Meditation for Bolivians,” which follows, in early 1967, several months before...

... to authorities in the city, calling on them to surrender and urging creoles—Spaniards born in the New World—to rally to his cause. Katari was illiterate himself, and hence he relied on scribes to pen his letters. The most prominent of them was Bonifacio Chuquimamani, said to be an Indian or cholo who had lived...