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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 433–434.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Joseph L. Arbena El ballet en México en el siglo XIX: de la independencia al segundo imperio (1825-1867) . By Smith Maya Ramos . Mexico City : Alianza Editorial , 1991 . Photographs. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 360 pp. Paper . Copyright 1992 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 681–716.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Elizabeth Schwall Abstract This article analyzes the politics of dance collaborations between Cubans and Mexicans from 1959 to 1983. During this period, Mexican modern dancers worked in Cuba, and Cuban ballet dancers in Mexico. Over years of close, visceral encounters, Mexican and Cuban dancers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 561–563.
Published: 01 August 2021
... that of the Russian dancers,” which ostensibly mixed ballet with “local color and ethnic peculiarity” (p. 24). For the 1932 ballet performance of Caballos de vapor ( Horsepower , also known as H.P. ), muralist Diego Rivera created the set, costumes, and libretto, and composer Carlos Chávez wrote the score. Chávez...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 739–740.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the 1910s through the 1940s. Cuellar's focus on Mexican dance and nationalism, as he acknowledges, has many precedents. Yet, Cuellar adds novel insights by examining “regional and traditional dance—known today as folklórico dance”—rather than other theatrical dance forms like ballet and modern dance...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 575–577.
Published: 01 August 2022
... by Duke University Press 2022 Elizabeth Schwall has written a fascinating book about culture and politics in Cuba. Dancing with the Revolution explores the development of concert dance—including ballet, modern dance, and so-called folkloric dance—from the 1930s through the 1980s, with particularly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 535–536.
Published: 01 August 1981
... and then erupts, Posada “emerges as the prophet of doom . . . , playing hide and seek with death as he surveys, now mockingly, now tragically, a Mexico which was about to be swept into a gigantic ‘festival of the dead,’ a vast ballet, or mitote of calaveras” (p. 139). Though José Guadalupe Posada died...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 684–685.
Published: 01 November 1990
... with extracts from official documents and frequent quotation of nineteenth-century historians of Guadeloupe such as Auguste Lacour and Jules Ballet, when their observations support Oruno Lara’s very different reading of the island’s past. This history of Guadeloupe, by a self-taught black typographical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 1965
... in such things as the theater, the ballet, music, and other artistic endeavors of which Mexico is currently and justifiably so proud. It is impossible, of course, to fit all of Mexico between the covers of a book, and Dr. Cline’s readers must be thankful that he has succeeded as well as he has. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 536–538.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Cuban imagination, is a jewel of historical detail. No less interesting are the contributions from Elizabeth Schwall (who uses cabaret and ballet, low and high culture, to dissect official cultural attitudes in the 1960s), Abel Sierra Madero (who reflects on sexuality, the Mariel exodus...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 712–714.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the book. For example, mentions of mambo (p. 264), famed pianists (p. 275), singer Celia Cruz (p. 332), ballet (pp. 396–97), the rap group Orishas (p. 446), and the film Juan of the Dead (p. 451) enliven the readers' understanding but leave us wanting more. Second, the publisher's or author's decision...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., at the same time demonstrating that the Brazilian Modernist project of merging erudite and popular culture is alive and well in the group's blending of modern dance, ballet, and popular/folk dance and rhythms. Alessandra Santos's discussion of Arnaldo Antunes's art provides an important example of an artist...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 558–560.
Published: 01 August 2017
... management: chummy with presidents from Lázaro Cárdenas to Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, leading light of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, owner of a publishing house and Librerías de Cristal, president of the ballet, director of the National Commission for Free Textbooks, eventually a senator. In his writings he...
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in Coordinating Movements: The Politics of Cuban-Mexican Dance Exchanges, 1959–1983
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 1. Elena Noriega with her Cuban students in the Teatro Nacional de Cuba studios, Havana. Photograph by Carlos Nuñez. Published in Guillermo Rivas, “Tierra: Un ballet de danzas modernas.” Clipping located in Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Archivo de Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, folder
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 681–706.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of a Mexican nationalist music scene in the 1920s has been blown out of proportion. In fact, El fuego nuevo was not premiered until 1928 in a revised concert version, and the actual ballet was never performed; Los cuatro soles was first performed, again in a rescored version, in 1930, and the ballet...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 291–328.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Centennial committee was an excited announcement that the celebrations would be open to the public and that many of the events would be “popular” in character. Scheduled programs included theater, opera, ballet, parades, and so forth, but the events that gained the most attention were those based on popular...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (1): 111–139.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of markets and plazas; the installation of public telephones; creation of a lending library; the organization of hundreds of excursions; more than six years of adult literacy courses; courses in judo, gymnastics, yoga, ballet, sewing and clothing design, English, capoeira , cooking, painting, knitting...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 247–281.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the excesses of Spanish conquest and colonialism. Jean-Philippe Rameau and Louis Fuzelier composed a ballet of the Incas entitled Les Indes galantes , which opened at the Royal Academy of Music in Paris in August 1735. Other operas that took up the theme of the moral Incas followed and were immensely popular...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 391–421.
Published: 01 August 2023
... . Fuzelier Louis . Les Indes galantes, ballet heroique [. . .]. [ Paris ]: L'Imprimerie de Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard , 1736 . García Gregorio . Origen de los indios de el Nuevo Mundo, e Indias occidentales [. . .]. 1607. Reprint, Madrid : Francisco Martinez Abad , 1729...
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The Revolta Contra Vacina of 1904: The Revolt Against “Modernization” in Belle-Époque Rio de Janeiro
Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 233–269.
Published: 01 May 1987
... were dangerous with the club, the knife, the straight-razor, and their feet, hands, and head; they practiced the delicate, dangerous, deadly moves of Rio’s traditional Afro-Brazilian martial art and folk ballet, capoeira . To be sure, the capoeiragem of 1904 was not the highly organized gang warfare...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 239–285.
Published: 01 May 1986
...-will gesture . . . and an indication of Soviet interest in the improvement of relations with Latin America as a whole,” adding that, in addition to closer economic relations, cultural exchanges would be increased, starting with a soccer match and the visit to Argentina of the Soviet ballet company. The paper...
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