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Author: Robert James Waller
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780434002047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoignant novel of love and life and the ties of past secrets. By the author of 'The bridges of Madison county' and 'Slow waltz in Cedar Bend'.
Author: Jim Lynch
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0307271900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate about bird-watching, Brandon has a hard time mustering enthusiasm for his new job as a Border Patrol agent guarding thirty miles of largely invisible boundary. But to everyone’s surprise, he excels at catching illegal immigrants, and as drug runners, politicians, surveillance cameras, and a potential sweetheart flock to this scrap of land, Brandon is suddenly at the center of something much bigger than himself. A magnificent novel of birding, smuggling, farming and extraordinary love, Border Songs welcomes us to a changing community populated with some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction.
Author: Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0199876118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norteña, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border's history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area's history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like "border," "nation," "migration," "diaspora," etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.
Author: James Leggio
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-16
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1135669627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.
Author: Robert James Waller
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780786204304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoignant novel of love, life and ties of past secrets. Author of "The bridges of Madison County".
Author: Leo Rangell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0429916418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book turns out to have a scientific relevance and value that will similarly interest many, not only those in the specialized field of neuroscience but very individual who has a brain and a mind and wonders about them.
Author: Sebastian D.G. Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1135656460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors to this volume investigate several themes about music's relationship to the literary compositions of James Joyce: music as a condition to which Joyce aspired; music theory as a useful way of reading his works; and musical compositions inspired by or connected with him.
Author: Leah Cowan
Publisher: Outspoken by Pluto
Published: 2021-03-20
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780745341071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the refugee crisis to the 'hostile environment', what do borders look and feel like in Brexit Britain?
Author: José David Saldívar
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0520918363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorder Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9401204772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat constitutes a border situation? How translatable and “portable” is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The volume opens with “Part I: (B)orders and lines: A Theoretical Intervention,” which explores the circle and the cross as spatial configurations of two contradictory urges, to separate and divide on the one hand, and to welcome and allow passage on the other. “Part II: Visions of the Mexican-US Border” zooms in onto the Mexican-United States border as it delves into the border transits between the two neighboring countries. But what happens when we situate the border on the cultural terrain? How well does the border travel? “Part III: Cultural Intersections” expands the border encounter as it deals with the different ways in which texts are encoded, registered, appropriated, mimicked and transformed in other cultural texts. “Part IV: Trans-Nations,” addresses instances of trans-American relations stemming from experiences of up-rooting and intercultural contacts in the context of mass-migration and migratory flows. Finally, “Part V: Trans-Lations,” deals with the ways in which the cultural borderlands suffuse other discourses and cultural practices. The volume is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of Border studies, Chicano studies, “Ethnic Studies,” as well as American Literature and Culture.
