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Week 9
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03/11/2008

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blocos afro
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community music groups from Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, which affirm African heritage.
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bossa nova
Definition
a slow samba (see below) developed in Rio de Janeiro, some forms of which have been influenced by jazz.
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Coatlicue
Definition
Aztec goddess who is mother of the earth and the sea; her statue is housed in the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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magic realism
Definition
term coined by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier in the 1940s which refers to some authors' use of descriptive narrative in combination with fantasy and myth to define a new, Latin American vision of reality.
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modernism
Definition
literary movement that emerged in Latin America in the late nineteenth century which proclaimed the autonomy of art and literature, especially poetry; influenced particularly by cultural developments in France.
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muralism
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modern art movement that began as a government-sponsored experiment in the 1920s in Mexico, using popular art, painted on walls, employing traditional and recognizable images, colors, and styles, to communicate with illiterate and semi-literate people. It is most notable for taking art out of private galleries into public spaces. Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco were some of the Mexican muralists whose large-scale works explored political and social themes.

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Operation Bootstrap
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U.S.-financed program, undertaken during the 1950s and 1960s, that accelerated industrialization in Puerto Rico.
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samba (SAHM-bah
Definition
Brazilian popular music exhibiting African influence.
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tropicalism
Definition
musical movement during the late 1960s in Brazil that re-examined Brazilian popular music and opened it to a variety of domestic and international influences; associated with Caetano Veloso, one of the movement's leaders.
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