THE ARTS IN LATIN AMERICA 1492-1820

Author: Joseph J. Rishel

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN-13:  978-0300120035

Written by distinguished international scholars, essays cover a full range of topics, including city planning, iconography in painting and sculpture, East-West connections, the power of images, and the role of the artist. This book presents a spectacular selection of decorative arts, textiles, silver, sculpture, painting, and furniture. Scholarly entries on some three hundred works highlight the various cultural influences and differences throughout this vast region. This groundbreaking book also includes an illustrated chronology, informative maps, and an exhaustive bibliography and is sure to set a new standard in the field of Latin American studies.

CINEMA BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND LOS ANGELES: ORIGINS TO 1960

Editors: Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christoper Horak, Lisa Jarvinen

Publisher:  Rutgers University Press

ISBN-13: 978-1978801240

Historically, Los Angeles has been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles builds upon this foundational insight to both examine the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and to explore the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. The volume editors aim to flesh out the gaps between Hollywood and Latin America, American imperialism and Latin American nationalism in order to produce a more nuanced view of transnational cultural relations in the western hemisphere. 

THE AMERICAS REVEALED: COLLECTING COLONIAL AND MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART IN THE UNITED STATES

Editor: Edward J. Sullivan

Publisher: Penn State University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0271079523

In this volume, distinguished art historian and curator Edward J. Sullivan brings together a vibrant group of essays that explore the formation, in the United States, of public and private collections of art from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas.

A thorough and definitive account of the changing course of private and public collections and their important connection to underlying political and cultural relations between the United States and Latin American countries, this volume gives a rare glimpse into the practice of collecting from the collectors’ own point of view.

LATIN AMERICAN ART SINCE 1900

Authors:  Edward Lucie-Smith

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

ISBN-13: 978-0500204580

An extraordinary synthesis of more than a century’s worth of art across Central and South America, Latin American Art Since 1900 covers everyone from popular figures such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, to a wide range of other artists who are less well-known outside Latin America.

Lucie-Smith examines major artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less familiar Latin American artists and exiled artists from Europe and the United States, such as Leonora Carrington.

In this classic survey, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day.

This month featuring books on Latin American Film and Music from Indiana University Press

COSMOPOLITAN FILM CULTURES IN LATIN AMERICA, 1896-1960

Edited by: Rielle Navitski and Nicolas Poppe

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN-13:  9780253026460

This edited volume examines how cinema forged cultural connections between Latin American publics and film-exporting nations in the first half of the twentieth century. Predating today's transnational media industries by several decades, these connections were defined by active economic and cultural exchanges, as well as longstanding inequalities in political power and cultural capital. The essays explore the arrival and expansion of cinema throughout the region, from the first screenings of the Lumière Cinématographe in 1896 to the emergence of new forms of cinephilia and cult spectatorship in the 1940s and beyond.

A GUIDE TO THE LATIN AMERICAN ART SONG REPERTOIRE

Author: Maya Hoover

Publisher:  Indiana University Press

ISBN-13: 9780253221384

A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a singer's perspective and it is divided by country into 22 chapters, with each chapter containing an introductory essay on the music of the region, a catalog of art songs for that country, and a list of publishers. Singers and teachers may use descriptive annotations (language, poet) or pedagogical annotations (range, tessitura) to determine which pieces are appropriate for their voices or programming needs, or those of their students.

CARLOS ALDAMA’S LIFE IN BATÁ: CUBA, DIASPORA, AND THE DRUM

Authors: Umi Vaughan, Carlos Aldama

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN-13: 9780253223784

Batá identifies both the two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people and the culture and style of drumming, singing, and dancing associated with it. This book recounts Carlos Aldama’s life, as a batá drum master, and through him the history of batá culture as it traveled from Africa to Cuba and then to the United States. For the enslaved Yoruba, batá rhythms helped sustain the religious and cultural practices of a people that had been torn from its roots. Aldama and his student Umi Vaughan bring to light the techniques and principles of batá in all its aspects.

TANGO: CREATION OF A CULTURAL ICON

Authors:  Jo Baim

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN-13: 9780253219053

In this fascinating account, Jo Baim dispels common tango stereotypes and tells the real story behind this rich and complex dance. Almost as interesting as the history of the tango is the cultural response to it: cities banned it, army officers were threatened with demotion if caught dancing it, clergy and politicians wrote diatribes against it. Newspaper headlines warned that people died from dancing the tango and that it would be the downfall of civilization. The vehemence of these anti-tango outbursts confirms one thing: the tango was a cultural force to be reckoned with!