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2. Latino baseball legends : an encyclopedia
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Freedman,Lew (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 361 p., Told through profiles of the men who have made it a reality, this is the complex story of the triumphs achieved by-and challenges faced by-Latinos who have risen to the heights of Major League Baseball.
3. Los caminos de la escritura negra en el Río de la Plata
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ventura de Molina, Jacinto, b.1766 (Author), Acree,William G. (Editor), and Borucki,Alex (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Madrid: Iberoamericana
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 285 p., Contents: Mapa del Río de la Plata hacia 1800 -- Cronología sobre Molina -- El Río de la Plata en los años de Jacinto Ventura de Molina / Alex Borucki -- Un sueño realizado : un letrado negro y el poder de la escritura / William G. Akree, Jr. -- [Notas] -- Escritos de Jacinto Ventura de Molina, c. 1817-1837. Escritos históricos y autobiográficos. Los afrodescendientes en los escritos de Molina. Peticiones al poder. Molina en los escritos de sus contemporáneos / [various authors]. Defensor de los pobres. Escritos políticos y literarios.; Collection consists chiefly of works by Ventura de Molina: political, historical, literary, and legal.
4. Negras líricas: duas intérpretes negras brasileiras na música de concerto (séc. XVIII-XX)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bittencourt-Sampaio,Sérgio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 7 Letras
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 173 p, Contents: O intérprete negro na música brasileira nos séculos XVIII e XIX -- Joaquina Maria da Conceição Lapa (Lapinha) -- Camila Maria da Conceição -- Principais apresentações e repertório de Joaquina Maria da Conceição Lapa (Lapinha) --Pincipais apresentações de Camila Maria da Conceição (1892-1908).
5. Professor Nettleford's death echoes around the world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Julal,Beverly (Author) and Davis,Clair (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-02-21
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Philadelphia Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 : 3B
- Notes:
- He was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer and vice-chancellor emeritus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university in the commonwealth of the Caribbean. His contributions to education and the arts are enormous. Jamaica Information Services describes him as a "quintessential Caribbean patriot, whose contributions will forever be etched into the annals of the region's history." According to Jamaica Information Service, [Rex Nettleford] was committed to the exploration of Caribbean cultural identity. One person commented on a blog that "Jamaicans will remember him for his articulation of their craving to be 'smady,' or 'smaddification,' a Jamaican dialect that means to be accepted as somebody with worth and character and not mere hewers of wood and carriers of water in the grand scheme of things." Nettleford co-authored a study of the Rastafarian movement, titled "The Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica," with M.G. Smith and Roy Augie, two noted Caribbean authors. In addition, his compilation of Norman Manley's speeches and writings gave credibility to his ability as a public historian and social critic.
6. The history of Afro Cuban Latin American music : singers, musicians, composers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sheldon,Harvey (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Charleston, SC: BookSurge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 772 p., George Gershwin introduced Afro Cuban Music in America in 1926. Xavier Cugat during the 1930's introduced The Rumba dance. Three great innovations based on Cuban music hit the USA after World War II: the first was Cubop, the latest Latin jazz fusion. The rumbustious conguero Chano Pozo was also important, for he introduced jazz musicians to basic Cuban rhythms. Cuban jazz has continued to be a significant influence. The mambo first entered the United States around 1950, though ideas had been developing in Cuba and Mexico City for some time.