1-20 of 104

Search Results for singer

Save search
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Image
Figure 3. Example of private currency. From the diary of William Singer Barclay, Tierra del Fuego, 1902. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 2, p. 136. There is no evidence that the workers on the 1907 FCER extension came across this form of money. Barclay picked up this curiosity several years earlier, and the Colonia Ocampo note was of particularly high quality. Nonetheless, these types of manual workers would have almost certainly encountered more rudimentary forms of private currency and been paid in credit by other employers.

Example of private currency. From the diary of William Singer Barclay, Tier...

Available to Purchase
in Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 3. Example of private currency. From the diary of William Singer Barclay, Tierra del Fuego, 1902. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 2, p. 136. There is no evidence that the workers on the 1907 FCER extension came across this form of money. Barclay More
Journal Article

The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá

Available to Purchase
Marixa Lasso
Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 772–774.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10025970
Published: 01 November 2022
...Marixa Lasso The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá . By Ezer Vierba . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography . xxxii, 323 pp. Paper, $30.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The Singer's Needle...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Singer&#x27;s</span> Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá View PDF for article titled, The <span class="search-highlight">Singer&#x27;s</span> Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá
Image
Figure 2. Railway builders at rest. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 3, p. 8.

Railway builders at rest. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singe...

Available to Purchase
in Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 2. Railway builders at rest. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 3, p. 8. More
Image
Figure 1. Photograph of payday at Entre Ríos Railway Company extension, 1907. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 3, p. 40.

Photograph of payday at Entre Ríos Railway Company extension, 1907. Royal G...

Available to Purchase
in Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 1. Photograph of payday at Entre Ríos Railway Company extension, 1907. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 3, p. 40. More
Journal Article

Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico

Available to Purchase
Natalie L. Kimball
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 385–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10369453
Published: 01 May 2023
...Natalie L. Kimball Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico . By Elyse Ona Singer . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2022 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix , 260 pp. Paper, $28.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke...
View articletitled, Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico View PDF for article titled, Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico
Journal Article

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940

Available to Purchase
Moramay López-Alonso
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 355–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10369219
Published: 01 May 2023
... of multinational corporations and globalization. The Singer sewing machine is a good example of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The patented invention was successfully turned into a new tool and technology that was globally adopted as a household appliance. The Singer sewing machine became a global...
View articletitled, Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 View PDF for article titled, Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940
Journal Article

Desenvolvimento econômico e evolução urbana: análise da evolução econômica de São Paulo, Blumenau, Pôrto Alegre, Belo Horizonte e Recife

Open Access
John Friedmann
Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (1): 162–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-52.1.162
Published: 01 February 1972
...John Friedmann Desenvolvimento econômico e evolução urbana: análise da evolução econômica de São Paulo, Blumenau, Pôrto Alegre, Belo Horizonte e Recife . By Singer Paul Israel . Preface by Fernandes Florestan . São Paulo , 1968 . Companhia Editôra Nacional with the Universidade...
View articletitled, Desenvolvimento econômico e evolução urbana: análise da evolução econômica de São Paulo, Blumenau, Pôrto Alegre, Belo Horizonte e Recife View PDF for article titled, Desenvolvimento econômico e evolução urbana: análise da evolução econômica de São Paulo, Blumenau, Pôrto Alegre, Belo Horizonte e Recife
Journal Article

Growth, Equality, and the Mexican Experience

Open Access
Robert Jones Shafer
Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 205–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-51.1.205
Published: 01 February 1971
... to specialists in finance, there are convenient reviews of data found in other studies that will be useful for reference purposes to economic historians generally. There is little new in these summaries. Singer’s cautions on simplistic interpretations of economic data by the untrained are useful. In chapter...
View articletitled, Growth, Equality, and the Mexican Experience View PDF for article titled, Growth, Equality, and the Mexican Experience
Journal Article

El gaucho indómito: Del Martin Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada

Available to Purchase
Oscar Chamosa
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 734–736.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8647252
Published: 01 November 2020
...Oscar Chamosa Oriented to an educated general audience, the book's prose is both rich and fluid, scholarly and accessible. The sections on the anarchist criollista improvisational singer Martín Castro and the radio-era folk singer and Juan Perón supporter Buenaventura Luna brilliantly analyze...
View articletitled, El gaucho indómito: Del Martin Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada View PDF for article titled, El gaucho indómito: Del Martin Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada
Journal Article

Music in Quito: Four Centuries

Open Access
Robert Stevenson
Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 247–266.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-43.2.247
Published: 01 May 1963
... motets. 5 In this colegio was reared the Indian musical prodigy, Cristóbal de Caranqui, 6 whose virtuosity as both singer and player was lauded in a report to Madrid. Even after 1581 the colegio continued to support Indian music maestros who with their charges still sang and played “polyphonic...
View articletitled, Music in Quito: Four Centuries View PDF for article titled, Music in Quito: Four Centuries
Journal Article

Social Struggles and the City: The Case of São Paulo

Open Access
George Reid Andrews
Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 596–597.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.3.596
Published: 01 August 1996
... , $38.00 . Paper , $18.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 This book is the English translation, with some updating, of a volume of essays published in Brazil in 1988. Like an earlier collection, São Paulo: o povo em movimento (1980), edited by Paul Singer and Vinícius Caldeira...
View articletitled, Social Struggles and the City: The Case of São Paulo View PDF for article titled, Social Struggles and the City: The Case of São Paulo
Journal Article

Flamenco Deep Song

Open Access
Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 337–338.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.2.337
Published: 01 May 1996
... . . . about taking pain, expressing it, playing with it, and possibly working through it” is accurate and well stated (p. 227). Three brief items would have enhanced this book as a reference tool: a selected bibliography; a short list, with capsule biographies, of the major cante jondo singers; and a highly...
View articletitled, Flamenco Deep Song View PDF for article titled, Flamenco Deep Song
Journal Article

Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s

Available to Purchase
Eduardo Elena
Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 61–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-9497200
Published: 01 February 2022
...Figure 3. Example of private currency. From the diary of William Singer Barclay, Tierra del Fuego, 1902. Royal Geographical Society, London, William Singer Barclay Collection, box 2, p. 136. There is no evidence that the workers on the 1907 FCER extension came across this form of money. Barclay...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s View PDF for article titled, Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s
Journal Article

The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

Open Access
David William Foster
Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 109–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-79.1.109
Published: 01 February 1999
... interest and cultural publications during the past ten years. Cantinflas is, therefore, only one of the cultural phenomena Stavans addresses in this format. Others include the singer Selena; the Chicana fiction writer Sandra Cisneros; recent Mexican films; Comandante Marcos of the Chiapas conflict; Elena...
View articletitled, The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture View PDF for article titled, The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture
Journal Article

From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture

Available to Purchase
Deborah Kanter
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 198–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-125
Published: 01 February 2010
... that leads Latina actresses and singers to be cast as “spicy,” sexual, emotional beings. These stereotypes go back generations in U.S. – Latin American relations, perhaps most famously with Brazilian actress Carmen Miranda taking on an iconic “Good Neighbor” role in Hollywood and, similarly, her image...
View articletitled, From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture View PDF for article titled, From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture
Journal Article

The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955

Available to Purchase
Pablo Vila
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1471085
Published: 01 February 2012
... of the period, Juan Alfonso Carrizo, Isabel Aretz, Carlos Vega, and Augusto Cortazar, who were involved in a very ambitious “folklore project.” Paradoxically, Chamosa also demonstrates how many of the folk composers and singers who participated in the landowner-sponsored movement (Atahualpa Yupanqui notable...
View articletitled, The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955 View PDF for article titled, The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955
Journal Article

Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

Available to Purchase
Deborah Jakubs
Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 167–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4294852
Published: 01 February 2018
... introducing a new cosmopolitan flavor. Sandro (Roberto Sánchez), the rock and roll and balada singer born in 1945 to an Argentine family of modest means, became a heartthrob and a sensation throughout the larger Spanish-speaking world, embracing his image as “Sandro de América.” Folk singer Mercedes Sosa...
View articletitled, Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music View PDF for article titled, Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music
Journal Article

Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

Available to Purchase
María Gembero
Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 526–527.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-020
Published: 01 August 2009
... the cathedral music chapel depended upon local musicians (particularly singers) trained at the Seminario de San Antonio Abad. There were some Indian cantores (singers) who worked at the Cathedral, but Baker suggests that in this case the term referred to instrumentalists. It should be pointed out, however...
View articletitled, Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco View PDF for article titled, Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco
Journal Article

Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Available to Purchase
Micol Seigel
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 155–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1903021
Published: 01 February 2013
... as the quality of the individual pieces, the insights far exceed the particulars of region; these essays deserve to be read by anyone curious about the epistemological payoff of thinking about sound. The volume’s opening chapter listens to the voices of speakers and singers recorded in popular music...
View articletitled, Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean View PDF for article titled, Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Journal Article

Les cultures ibériques en devenir: Essais publiés en hommage à la memoire de Marcel Bataillon, 1895–1977

Open Access
Irving A. Leonard
Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 152–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-61.1.152a
Published: 01 February 1981
.... Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Les cultures ibériques en devenir: Essais publiés en hommage à la memoire de Marcel Bataillon , 1895–1977 . By Singer-PoligNAC Fondation . Paris : Fondation Singer-Polignac , 1979 . Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes . Pp. 783 . Paper . ...
View articletitled, Les cultures ibériques en devenir: Essais publiés en hommage à la memoire de Marcel Bataillon, 1895–1977 View PDF for article titled, Les cultures ibériques en devenir: Essais publiés en hommage à la memoire de Marcel Bataillon, 1895–1977