We want a degree of eclecticism in our historians. For one thing, it tends to make the history they impart more entertaining. Another, more important reason is that it's often a sign of a nimble ...

Venezuela has always been exposed to the US’ hegemonic culture. Its reach when it comes to fashion, movies, music, etc. is huge, and on some occasions this becomes very visible. It is a consequence of ...

LOCATING EAST ASIA IN WESTERN ART MUSIC, edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau, foreword by Bonnie Wade. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, 388 pp., with musical examples, $27.95 ...

The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...

Cet ouvrage entend mettre en avant un pan de la sociologie caribéenne contemporaine peu étudié à travers les recherches universitaires qui traitent des études postcoloniales et des cultural studies à ...

Includes papers presented at a conference of the German Association of Africanists (Vereinigung von Afrikanisten in Deutschland), held in Hamburg, 2002.