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| Bonampak, Mayan murals, Chiapas |
Tierra y Corazón. Make these words your point of departure for a painting, drawing or collage-construction--and listen to the recordings of Chavela Vargas and Antonio Bribiesca (guitarra) while you're working. See where the songs take you. We'll visit some of them individually next week for the lyrics... Para fijarnos en la letra...
Chavela Vargas, Sentimiento de México (Vols. I-II)
https://berkeley.box.com/s/ibzbwcc0d401qwwrqrm3
Chavela Vargas was one of the best interpreters of José Alfredo Jiménez--many of whose songs are featured on these two disks. The original records were made in 1963. (For full track information, download the entire set and import the xml file into you iTunes.)
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Purchase: Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (The Laberynth of Solitude, in English translation by Lysander Kemp). Reading Octavio Paz together will give us ways of thinking about the material in the class--and about culture and place in a wider sense.
Online Notebooks. Send me your homepage URL as active link. Post your work each week--with appropriate writing! No excedtions...
Enrollment. Take number from my permissions sheet in class.
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| Sergei Eisenstein, Qué Viva México (1933) |
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