Recent Books
Silencing the Drum: Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music
Danielle N. Boaz and Umi Vaughan
Silencing the Drum exposes the profound struggle of Afro-Brazilian sacred music against escalating intolerance. Danielle N. Boaz and Umi Vaughan blend legal scholarship with ethnomusicology, offering a compelling narrative rooted in interviews with religious leaders, musicians, and activists across Brazil. This multidisciplinary exploration examines the relentless attacks against the practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions—from discriminatory noise complaints in Bahia to vigilante violence in Rio de Janeiro.
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Re-entry
Marianne Solivan
Re-entry is acclaimed musician Marianne Solivan’s fifth jazz album. Working with a group of musicians including Leandro Pellegrino (guitar), Steve Wood (bass), Jay Sawyer (drums) and Alex Terrier (saxophones) over the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solivan first rehearsed a varied repertoire in an empty neighborhood bar, recording just as New York City was coming out of lockdown. In her words, “Everyone brought in music they loved, and we all jumped in on every song. Arrangements were shaped and reshaped until we all felt they were right. We had no allegiances to style or genre but only to our own musicianship and musicality.”
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Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914–1922
Edith W. Clowes
Shredding the Map investigates Russian place consciousness in the decade between the start of World War I and the end of the Russian civil war. Attachment to place is a vital aspect of human identity, and connection to homeland, whether imagined or real, can be especially powerful. Drawing from a large digital database of period literature, Shredding the Map investigates the metamorphic changes in how Russians related to places—whether abstractions like “country” or concrete spaces of borders, fronts, and edgelands—during these years.
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Sin fronteras: Inclusive Spanish Grammar Guidebook
Liana Stepanyan, María Mercedes Fages Agudo, Carolina Castillo Larrea and Goretti Prieto Botana
Sin fronteras: Inclusive Spanish Grammar Guidebook is the first ever Spanish language text to teach non-binary and gender-neutral language. It is an invaluable resource for intermediate and advanced learners that offers concise explanations and exercises for the major clausal structures, tenses, and moods.
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