NYPL, Research Guide, Biographical Resources Supplemented by notable American Women The Modern Period A latin AmericanLives New York Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1998 *RAGU 00-9274 http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/biography/print.html
Extractions: @import "/styles/markup-nonNS4.css"; Skip to Left Navigation Skip to Main Content get a library card? find a book? renew a book? reserve a book? research a topic? find a job at NYPL? volunteer for NYPL? support NYPL? rent space? order/license images? learn to read? learn English? find events? find exhibitions? find classes? connect with wireless? Use your browser's print controls to print a copy of this resource guide. Introduction to the Collections The Reading Rooms of the General Research Division house most of the major biographical reference sources, many of which are found on the open shelves. These include indexes and guides to biographical material as well as biographical dictionaries, works of collective biography (concerned with groups of individuals, often arranged by nationality or vocation), and a selection of biographies of notable individuals. Users are welcome to browse this collection of reference materials, located in the South Hall of the Rose Main Reading Room.
El Salvador Hardworking Salvadorans have had a notable impact on these cities. Still,Salvadoran music has not reached far outside the latin American community, http://www.lafi.org/magazine/articles/salvador.html
Extractions: El Salvador, the smallest country on the American mainland, came to be known in the U.S. during the fierce civil war of the 1980s, in which the U.S. was a major participant through its sponsorship of the Army and allied political parties. The war drove a sizable part of the population out of the country, taking many people to cities like Houston, Los Angeles, and Washington. Hard-working Salvadorans have had a notable impact on these cities. Still, Salvadoran music has not reached far outside the Latin American community, and even among Latin Americans it is hardly as well known as the widespread Salvadoran cuisine. A good way to begin to understand it, as is the case with the music of any country, is to know something about the history of the country. El Salvador has not produced a genre that, like reggae, son, merengue, or tango, has found a universal or even broad Latin American reception. The music of El pulgarcito, the Thumbellina of America, has been largely defined by that of larger and more influential countries, from colonial Spain to Mexico and the U.S. The coming of globalization and mass-market culture, and the current ongoing integration of El Salvador into those trends, foretells a continuation of that history.
A History Of Latin-American Popular Music latin America has produced a variety of genres born at the crossroads of European Other notable salsa hits of the 1970s were Jose Cheo Feliciano s El http://www.scaruffi.com/history/latin.html
Extractions: excerpted from The History of Rock Music Piero Scaruffi Latin America has produced a variety of genres born at the crossroads of European folk music, African music and native traditions. While not as popular as the popular music of the USA (also born out of the integration of European music and African music), Latin American genres shares the same characters that made it a universal koine'. Piero Scaruffi Yo Soy La Morocha (1906). By that time, tango had already established itself as a major genre among young Argentinians. Roberto Firpo is credited as having set the standard in 1913 for all future tango orchestras: the rhythm set by syncopated piano figures, the melodies carried by bandoneon and violin. Firpo's Alma de Bohemio (1914) and Gerardo Hernan Matos Rodriguez's La Cumparsita (1916) were among the early international hits. Bandoneon player Osvaldo Fresedo and violin player Julio de Caro were among the instrumental stars and composers of the 1920s. From his debut with Mi Noche Triste (1917), the song that introduced lyrics into the tango, to his untimely death in 1935, Carlos Gardel was the most charismatic vocalist, the master of erotic abandon. The tango craze took New York by storm during World War I. Rudolph Valentino created an international sensation in a steamy scene of his film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921). But tango became a more intellectual affair during the 1930s, when literate songwriters created more poetic lyrics. Representative musicians of the decade are pianist Osvaldo Pugliese (
Latin America: Empowering Civil Society At the first World Social Forum, 18000 people from 117 countries participated, Betto is one of the latin American personalities addressing the WSF, http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pa1.htm
Extractions: BACK TO MAIN ONLINE BOOKSTORE HOW TO ORDER Latin America: Empowering civil society Porto Alegre, Brazil, 31 Jan 2002 (IPS/Gustavo Gonzalez) - Grassroots activists and members of civil society must be empowered to assert their economic, social and cultural rights in the context of a globalized world, say many of the Latin American organisations participating in the second World Social Forum in this southern Brazilian city through 5 February. Latin America, and particularly host-country Brazil, is playing a leading role in this second annual gathering of independent and non-governmental entities, an event born in January 2001 as a counterweight to the World Economic Forum, a yearly meeting in which the worlds most powerful politicians and business executives set the world economic agenda. At the first World Social Forum, 18,000 people from 117 countries participated, including delegates from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and participants in the Youth Camp and the Indigenous Nations Camp. This year, more than 50,000 people are converging on Porto Alegre, convened under the motto, another world is possible.
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On Tap Magazine Guerra has revamped the latin Americanthemed menu to incorporate dishes thatmerge his 15 KNOW OF A NEW, notable OR NO LONGER? EMAIL JMAYO@ONTAPONLINE. http://www.ontaponline.com/view_article.php?article_id=10024
Secretariat Of State For Immigration And Emigration The most noteworthy evolution among nationals from latin American countries a notable increase in the number of nationals of certain latin American http://extranjeros.mtas.es/en/general/inmigracion.html
Extractions: Subscriptions Accessible version Links Español ... Home Inmigration Inmigration in Spain: Evolution and Perspectives Spain has indeed become a host country for immigration, although it is true that settlement figures are lower in comparison with the number of immigrants in other European Union countries. However, the lower rates in terms of shear numbers must not detract attention from a what is now an important reality and will be even more so in the future, given the different factors that must be analysed. Nor may one ignore the increasing globalisation of the migration phenomenon, a fact we must be aware has evident international implications. It is a matter neither the country of origin, nor the country chosen by immigrants may deal with alone. This has led to immigration becoming a key issue in such forums as the European Union, as the member States become aware of the need to find joint solutions to the challenges of immigration. Analysis of existing statistical data shows what may be defined as a moderate growth in the number of foreigners in Spain in the last twenty years. Since 1981, when 198,042 foreigners were resident in Spain, the figure rose to 801,329 in 1999, and the figures studied from each of the years in this period shows constant growth, with only slight variations, except for that due to the 1991 regularisation process, that considerably increased the total number of foreign residents in the country.
MedMira Expands Market Presence In Latin America - Forbes.com Registrations in these three key latin American markets enable MedMira to continue people in these high risk categories typically visit mobile testing http://www.forbes.com/prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2005/07/05/prnewswire200507051
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LACLA Resources Welcome to LACLA s online portal to latinAmerican cinema! The group issupported by notable latino entertainment professionals devoted to fighting http://www.lacla.org/resources.html
Extractions: Latino Review , Los Angeles- and New York-based web site featuring reviews of the latest American movies to the English speaking Latin-American audience. Reviewers are young Latinos (Puerto Rico, Mexico, Columbia) based in Los Angeles and New York, offering a fresh perspective of movies from the nation's fastest growing markets.
ReVista - David Rockefeller Center For Latin American Studies They were and remain a people in search of a marginal world, in the words Herbert Braun teaches latin American history at the University of Virginia. http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/revista/?article_id=234
Teaching Resources | Latin American Studies At The University Of Washington The University of Washington s latin American Studies program in the Jackson School notable Childrens Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies, 1995. http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/latinam/Webs/Program/Outreach/teachin
-- Encyclopædia Britannica Over the years, latinAmerican literature has developed a rich and complex American literature Wherever there are people there will be a literature. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9344
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Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The great city of Caracas spreads over innumerable mountainous hills, and in the rainy season the peaks poke up through the clouds that hover in the valleys below. Several million people live on these steep slopes in barrios, a word which, when translated into English as "shanty towns", does little justice to the reality. These are not just settlements of corrugated iron and wattle and daub, but mostly well-established homes of cheap breeze-blocks set in concrete frames. Their defining characteristic is close proximity, each tiny habitation piled high above the next, fighting for space. A mass of humanity passes by, inperpetual movement. Some are white or of mixed race, but the great majority are dark skinned. Venezuela is poised geographically between Brazil and the islands of the Caribbean, and the children of slaves and native Americans far outnumber those of the European settlers. In one of the richest countries in Latin America, they live in permanent and absolute poverty. Many scratch a living as hawkers in the valleys below.
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo University Library North Bay Regional Collection notable people Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was arrested in his own home by American frontiersmen. http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/notables/vallejo.html
Extractions: skip navigation Snoopy Library Catalog Photograph courtesy of the California Heritage Collection, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley "If he was not actually the founder of California's diversity, Vallejo was certainly one of it's chief architects." Capsule Biography July 7, 1808 (or July 5, 1807). The eighth of thirteen children, Mariano was born to Maria Antonio Lugo and Ignacio Vallejo in Monterey, the provincial capitol of Alta (Upper) California. His father, a leather jacket soldier, escorted Junipero Serra to San Francisco in 1776 and later worked as an engineer on irrigation projects. 1818. When the pirate, Bouchard, sacked Monterey, Mariano fled inland with his mother and siblings. His father and older brother remained behind to defend the capitol. Governor Sola mentored the young Vallejo, providing him with a role model for solid leadership, liberalism, and sophistication. He was tutored in English, French, and Latin by the Englishman, William Hartnell and worked as Hartnell's clerk and bookkeeper. 1822 - 1826. Vallejo served as personal secretary to Governor Arguello; entered military service as a cadet at Monterey; and became a member of the territorial legislature.
Extractions: Stewart R. King is an associate professor of history at Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon. By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility to free people of color. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingue's free black elites on the eve of its transformation into the republic of Haiti. Stewart R. King identifies two distinctive groups that shared the colony's free black upper stratum, one consisting of planters and merchants and the other of members of the army and police forces. With the aid of individual and family case studies, King documents how the two groups used different strategies to pursue the common goal of economic and social advancement. Among other aspects, King looks at the rural or urban bases of these groups' networks, their relationships with whites and free blacks of lesser means, and their attitudes toward the acquisition, use, and sale of land, slaves, and other property. King's main source is the notarial archives of Saint Domingue, whose holdings offer an especially rich glimpse of free black elite life. Because elites were keenly aware of how a bureaucratic paper trail could help cement their status, the archives divulge a wealth of details on personal and public matters.
Center For Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley She sang the history of the people. Violeta Parra also was the first folklorist and invent a different music, learning from the music of latin America. http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/fall1999/10-06-99-inti-illimani/
Extractions: A Conversation with Horacio Salinas October 6, 1999 CLAS : Tell us how Inti Illimani was formed. Horacio Salinas : Our group has a Bolivian name. It demonstrates our interest in going beyond our particular country and our particular music. There is one person who was instrumental to the spirituality of the movement which we call [the chilean new song], of which we formed a part, and that was Violeta Parra. Violeta Parra was someone who for the first time linked the music to the problems of people. Before that, the popular music [of Chile] tended to be descriptive, about scenery, it was devoid of any type of conflict. She sang the history of the people. Violeta Parra also was the first folklorist who I believe took folklore further, she in fact invented rhythms and freely incorporated new instruments. For example she played the Venezuelan cuatro , which is not from our culture, and the Bolivian charango , and therefore she gave us a model, which was very important and used by other musicians, to create and invent a different music, learning from the music of Latin America.
Extractions: The first South American Music Conference landed in Buenos Aires, with a host of international DJs joining local talent to the delight of over 22,000 fans Buenos Aires has long been regarded as the dance music centre of South America. After jockeying with Brazil and after hosting Creamfields Buenos Aires in 2002, Argentina has finally solidified itself as the capital of electronica in South America. Despite a larger quantity of people in Brazil, the scene is a lot more advanced in Argentina Many saw the SAMC as the chance for Argentina and South America to become firmly established in the global calendar. Gustavo Sofovich, event organizer and producer commented on his idea and projections for the future: "Having lived in Miami, I saw the model that is the Winter Music Conference. So why not create a South American conference like Miami, so that DJs, promoters, record labels, club owners could come together?" "I believe it's very important for South America that there's a conference, especially since for seven or eight years there has been the Winter Music Conference in Miami. Now the industry can begin to look at South America a lot more. Despite a larger quantity of people in Brazil, the scene is a lot more advanced in Argentina. I think the crowd is here tonight, to see both the international and south American DJs the DJs are giving it their best, as is the crowd."
Extractions: The first South American Music Conference landed in Buenos Aires, with a host of international DJs joining local talent to the delight of over 22,000 fans Buenos Aires has long been regarded as the dance music centre of South America. After jockeying with Brazil and after hosting Creamfields Buenos Aires in 2002, Argentina has finally solidified itself as the capital of electronica in South America. Despite a larger quantity of people in Brazil, the scene is a lot more advanced in Argentina Many saw the SAMC as the chance for Argentina and South America to become firmly established in the global calendar. Gustavo Sofovich, event organizer and producer commented on his idea and projections for the future: "Having lived in Miami, I saw the model that is the Winter Music Conference. So why not create a South American conference like Miami, so that DJs, promoters, record labels, club owners could come together?" "I believe it's very important for South America that there's a conference, especially since for seven or eight years there has been the Winter Music Conference in Miami. Now the industry can begin to look at South America a lot more. Despite a larger quantity of people in Brazil, the scene is a lot more advanced in Argentina. I think the crowd is here tonight, to see both the international and south American DJs the DJs are giving it their best, as is the crowd."
