The Inevitable Bandstand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inevitable Bandstand write by Charles V. Heath. This book was released on 2015-08-01. The Inevitable Bandstand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An examination of the histories of Mexico and Oaxaca and the creation of the identity of the modern political state through the Banda de Mâusica del Estado de Oaxaca (Music Band of the State of Oaxaca; BME)"
The Inevitable Bandstand
The Inevitable Bandstand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inevitable Bandstand write by Charles V. Heath. This book was released on 2015. The Inevitable Bandstand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state. In The Inevitable Bandstand, Charles V. Heath examines the BME's role as a part of popular political culture that the state of Oaxaca has deployed in an attempt to bring unity and order to its domain. The BME has always served multiple functions: it arose from musical groups that accompanied military forces as they trained and fought; today it performs at village patron saint days and at Mexico's patriotic celebrations, propagating religions both sacred and civic; it offers education in the ways of liberal democracy to its population, once largely illiterate; and finally, it provides respite from the burdens of life by performing at strictly diversionary functions such as serenades and Sunday matinees. In each of these government-sanctioned roles, the BME serves to unify, educate, and entertain the diverse and fragmented elements within the state of Oaxaca, thereby mirroring the historical trajectory of the state of Oaxaca and the nation of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic and Spanish colonial eras to the nascent Mexican republic, from a militarized and fractured young nation to a consolidated postrevolutionary socialist state, and from a predominantly Catholic entity to an ostensibly secular one.
Lady's Realm
Lady's Realm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lady's Realm write by . This book was released on 1901. Lady's Realm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mysterious Sofía
The Mysterious Sofía - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mysterious Sofía write by Stephen J. C. Andes. This book was released on 2019-12-01. The Mysterious Sofía available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who was the “Mysterious Sofía,” whose letter in November 1934 was sent from Washington DC to Mexico City and intercepted by the Mexican Secret Service? In The Mysterious Sofía Stephen J. C. Andes uses the remarkable story of Sofía del Valle to tell the history of Catholicism’s global shift from north to south and the importance of women to Catholic survival and change over the course of the twentieth century. As a devout Catholic single woman, neither nun nor mother, del Valle resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, became a labor activist in a time of class conflict, founded an educational movement, toured the United States as a public lecturer, and raised money for Catholic ministries—all in an age dominated by economic depression, gender prejudice, and racial discrimination. The rise of the Global South marked a new power dynamic within the Church as Latin America moved from the margins of activism to the vanguard. Del Valle’s life and the stories of those she met along the way illustrate the shared pious practices, gender norms, and organizational networks that linked activists across national borders. Told through the eyes of a little-known laywoman from Mexico, Andes shows how women journeyed from the pews into the heart of the modern world.
Apostle of Progress
Apostle of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apostle of Progress write by J. Justin Castro. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Apostle of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary technocrats were the system builders who drew up the blueprints, printed newspapers, implemented reforms, and constructed complexity—people who built modern Mexico with an eye on remedying long-standing problems through social, material, and infrastructural development during a period of revolutionary change. In Apostle of Progress J. Justin Castro examines the life of Modesto C. Rolland, a revolutionary propagandist and a prominent figure in the development of Mexico, to gain a better understanding of the role engineers played in creating revolution-era policies and the reconstruction of the Mexican nation. Rolland influenced Mexican land reform, petroleum development, stadium construction, port advancements, radio broadcasting, and experiments in political economy. In the telling of Rolland’s story, Castro offers a captivating account of the Mexican Revolution and the influence of global progressivism on the development of twentieth-century Mexico.
