Author: Michelle Habell-Pallán
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814736637
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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In Loca Motion, Michelle Habell-Pall argues that performances like Diva L.A. play a vital role in shaping and understanding contemporary transnational social dynamics.
Author: Michelle Habell-Pallan
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814744605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the “Mexican Elvis,“along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking show, “Diva L.A.: A Salute to L.A.’s Latinas in the Tanda Style.” The performances were remarkable not only for the talent displayed, but for their blend of linguistic, musical, and cultural traditions. In Loca Motion, Michelle Habell-Pallán argues that performances like Diva L.A. play a vital role in shaping and understanding contemporary transnational social dynamics. Chicano/a and Latino/a popular culture, including spoken word, performance art, comedy, theater, and punk music aesthetics, is central to developing cultural forms and identities that reach across and beyond the Americas, from Mexico City to Vancouver to Berlin. Drawing on the lives and work of a diverse group of artists,Habell-Pallán explores new perspectives that defy both traditional forms of Latino cultural nationalism and the expectations of U.S. culture. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of identity politics and an invaluable lens from which to view the complex dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Author: Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134859708
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities. Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard. Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.
Author: Angus Fletcher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674027116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.
Author: Worthington Chauncey Ford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385414210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: Robert R.A. ARNĂUTU
Publisher: Zeta Books
ISBN: 6066970364
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book addresses the ‘technological issues’ of Bacon’s and Descartes’ work in order to supply, for the philosophers of technology, a more nuanced analysis of the philosophical positions that set the stage for modern technology and, for the scholars in Early Modern studies, a different reading both of their philosophies and their conceptual affinities. Descartes is not only a philosopher but he is also a technological designer. He is involved in the design and even the construction of various devices, from the machine that cuts lenses, described in Dioptrics, to an automaton referred to in Cogitationes Privatae, a drainage system, a virginal, and the devices constructed with Villebressieu. Descartes works with craftsmen, offers theoretical and practical advice, and general considerations regarding the practice of constructing useful devices.
Author: John Webb Probyn
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385477441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: Dave McAleer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306663
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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(Book). Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NME/Music Week in the UK, this entertaining book shows at a glance the monthly international status of the hits. The fully updated and revised fourth edition lists the charts since they began in January 1954 all the way through December 2000. Each song is listed with artist name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the "other side of the pond." Special symbols indicate million-sellers, plus artists' first and most recent hits. All stars and songs are indexed separately, making it especially easy to pinpoint any Top 20 hit. Includes 200 photos, plus new pop trivia and star gossip!
Author: William John Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The discontinuance of the publication "after the issue of the 3rd prox." [i.e. November 3, 1905] is announced in no. 50 and 51 of volume 5. This copy ends with no. 51, October 27, and the Index, dated November 3, does not contain any references to pages of a later date.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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