MADUREIRA, LUIS. Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant-Garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature. Virginia: University of Virginia Press (New World Studies), 2005. 256 pp. $55.00 (hardback); $19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8139 2375 1/2376 X

We lived and lived. But then, whoops!We found ourselves in other times…Timur Shaov. “Other times (listening to Galich once again)”Crises shaking our reality in the last decades happen so often that they overlap each other like roof tiles. Linear development of the second half of the twentieth century gave way to the era of cardinal changes. While building a new world, we strongly feel the need to preserve and comprehend the past. It is possible to understand the new only in comparison with the past. The disappearing world that consists of separate, isolated and selfcontained fragments is embodied in monuments of architecture. Images, techniques and practices of design and construction acquire a special meaning and new relevance in these new times. Wooden architecture of Siberia and stone merchant houses in Yalutorovsk, ancient churches and Leonidov’s avant-garde project, ruins of Stalin’s camps and the Korean Garden in Irkutsk are elements of the past that we need to understand the present. Protesting against the unification of tastes, breach of family relations and destruction of traditions, glocalization is on the rise.

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Modernismo’s Literary Engagements with Film

Foundational Films ◽

10.1525/california/9780520290983.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 181-207

Author(s):

Maite Conde

Keyword(s):

Experimental Literature ◽

Brazilian Literature ◽

Mario De Andrade ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Literary Movement ◽

Art Form ◽

New Ideas ◽

Film Form

By the 1920s, new ideas regarding film as the seventh art disseminated in Europe had a profound effect on Brazilian literature, specifically the emergence of an avant-garde literary movement known as modernismo, or “modernism.” Charting the new theories regarding cinema as an art form, this chapter examines how they were appropriated and elaborated by modernist writers in Brazil in the 1920s, most notably in the novels of Oswald de Andrade, the poetry of Mário de Andrade, and an urban chronicle by Antônio de Alcântara Machado called Pathé Baby. In examining this experimental literature, the chapter shows how new international ideas regarding film form and aesthetics provided the modernist writers with a tool for critiquing the official trajectory of national modernity in Brazil.

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The Contribution of Radiocarbon Dating to New World Archaeology

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200053017 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

R E Taylor

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Critical Role ◽

Great Success ◽

Field Methods ◽

Archaeological Data ◽

Noticeable Improvement ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Relationship ◽

New World Studies

When introduced almost five decades ago, radiocarbon (14C) dating provided New World archaeologists with a common chronometric scale that transcended the countless site-specific and regional schemes that had been developed by four generations of field researchers employing a wide array of criteria for distinguishing relative chronological phases. A topic of long standing interest in New World studies where 14C values have played an especially critical role is the temporal framework for the initial peopling of the New World. Other important issues where 14C results have been of particular importance include the origins and development of New World agriculture and the determination of the relationship between the western and Mayan calendars. It has been suggested that the great success of 14C was an important factor in redirecting the focus of American archaeological scholarship in the 1960s from chronology building to theory building, led to a noticeable improvement in US archaeological field methods, and provided a major catalyst that moved American archaeologists increasingly to direct attention to analytical and statistical approaches in the manipulation and evaluation of archaeological data.

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Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-American Communities.

MERIP Reports ◽

10.2307/3011286 ◽

1984 ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

Eric Hooglund ◽

Sameer Abraham ◽

Nabil Abraham

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Arab American ◽

New World Studies

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Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-American Communities.

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews ◽

10.2307/2067658 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 366

Author(s):

Elaine C. Hagopian ◽

Sameer Y. Abraham ◽

Nabeel Abraham

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Arab American ◽

New World Studies

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Spectromorphological analysis of sound objects: an adaptation of Pierre Schaeffer's typomorphology

Organised Sound ◽

10.1017/s1355771807001793 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 129-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Lasse Thoresen ◽

Andreas Hedman

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Sound Production ◽

Sound Quality ◽

Electroacoustic Music ◽

Western Music ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Practical Tool ◽

Practical Analysis ◽

Sound Objects ◽

The 1960S

AbstractThe last fifty years has witnessed an enormous development with regard to sound production, and has opened a new world of novel aural experiences. In order to be able to articulate and discuss these experiences there is a need for a corresponding novel set of terms and concepts. Such a terminology would also be relevant for analytical and interpretive approaches to electroacoustic music, avant-garde Western music, and ethno music. Pierre Schaeffer's typomorphology, developed in the 1960s, proposed a variety of novel terms, but they have not been of widespread use, since they unfortunately did not lend themselves very well for practical analysis. The present paper intends to develop Schaeffer's approach in the direction of a practical tool for conceptualising and notating sound quality. While carefully reducing the sometimes-bewildering number of terms found in Schaeffer's work, it introduces a set of graphic symbols apt for transcribing electroacoustic music in a concise score. The analysis of sound objects calls for a specific listeners' intention, called reductive listening.

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