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This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the city’s urban musical culture. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelona’s nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commerc...
Brazil has been a major site of modernity for all art forms. By using the first Saõ Paulo Bienal in 1951 as a starting point, this exhibition highlights some key moments of experimentation to have emerged. The selected works illustrate how sculptors have explored potential sites to locate their work outside the formality of the gallery or museum.
The Lloyd's Register of Shipping records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self-propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
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This book contains "critical essays along with a catalogue raisonné of the Fundação José e Paulina Nemirovsky's art assets"--p. 35.