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Latin America Book Reviews
Latin America Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. By María Elena Cepeda. New York: New York University Press, January 2010. 978-0814716915, $65; p. Aper: ISBN 978-0-8147-1692-2, $22. Review by Sandra J. Fallon-Ludwig, Brandeis University. María Elena Cepeda attempts to remedy this neglect in her discussion of contemporary. The evolution of the. The selective history of Latin music and the commercia...
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Literature Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance. By Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2010. Cloth: ISBN. Review by Scott Hendrix, Carroll University, Wisconsin. Raguaglio minutissimo del successo della peste di Venetia. Provides an intriguing and deeply insightful analysis of the effects of plague on the Italian peninsula during the late Renaissance. Posted by Bridget Cowlishaw, Ph.D. This purposeful ...
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Material Culture Book Reviews
Material Culture Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950. Edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, December 2009. Cloth: ISBN 978-0754665380, $99.95. 296 pages. Review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College. The “world of the needle,” however, has been a blind spot for a number of scholars, and the essays in this work enhan...The colle...
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Music Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. By María Elena Cepeda. New York: New York University Press, January 2010. 978-0814716915, $65; p. Aper: ISBN 978-0-8147-1692-2, $22. Review by Sandra J. Fallon-Ludwig, Brandeis University. María Elena Cepeda attempts to remedy this neglect in her discussion of contemporary. The evolution of the. Genre and the music of the female popular artist Shakira. The selective history of...
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Native American Book Reviews
Native American Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Thursday, July 29, 2010. The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, November 2008. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-8032-1073-8, $50. 462 pages. Review by John T. “Jack” Becker, Texas Tech University. The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890,. The Lakota saw the military with a mixture of hate and respect caused by years of warfare between the two groups. Although summoned to protect settlers, some military leaders knew the Indians had g...
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Performing Arts Book Reviews
Performing Arts Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History. By Constance Valis Hill. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, January 2010. Cloth: ISBN. 978-0195390827, $39.95. 464 pages. Review by Douglas C. Macleod, State University of New York, Albany. Tap Dancing America: a Cultural History. In her work, Hill talks about a then-twenty-six-year-old Horne performing in. In fact, that is what makes. Such a compelling read. Ob...
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Science Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Monday, October 19, 2009. A History of the Future. New York: The Monacelli Press, November 2008. Cloth: ISBN-13: 978-1580932073, $45. 280 pages. Review by Yves Laberge, Laval University, Quebec. How did artists, writers, filmmakers and architects from previous centuries imagine and represent their idea of times to come? Now that we more or less live in what could be called their future, can we verify how precise and accurate were their visions and predictions? Edited by Ang...
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Social Custom Book Reviews
Social Custom Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, March 2010. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3, $26.95; paper: ISBN. 978-0393338911, $16.95. Review by Joseph E. Morgan, Brandeis University. The sixth chapter, “One Nation under a Thump? Posted by Bridget Cowlishaw, Ph.D. The Battle for America, 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election. Y Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson. Grassroots orga...
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Southwest USA Book Reviews
Southwest USA Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Monday, October 19, 2009. Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, December 2008. Cloth: ISBN 978-1-58544-605-6, $40. 624 pages. Review by Jonathan Hill, National University of Singapore. On what basis were these subjects and not others included? Is it a collection of oral histories, presented merely to allow the subjects to tell their stories directly to the reader? Thursday, June 25, 2009.
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Television Book Reviews
Southwest Journal of Cultures. Thursday, July 29, 2010. SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference Paper by Samira Nadkarni, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 8220;Is that a footnote, or are you just happy to see me? 8221;: Examining Meta-narrative in. Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. 8220;All that matters: taking matters into your own hands,” sings Dr. Horrible in the 2008 web series. Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. His terrible death whinny. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Co-writer and director Jo...
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Visual Arts Book Reviews
Visual Arts Book Reviews. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18. Edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell. New York: Berg Publishers, February 2010. Cloth: ISBN 978-1845204938, $119.95; Paper: ISBN 978-1845204921, $39.95. 480 pages. Review by Kevin M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh. 1999, eds. Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall) and The Visual Culture Reader. A History of Visual Culture. Century revolutions and the p...
