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Sowing the Sacred Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California

Sowing the Sacred Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California
Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California by Lloyd Daniel Barba
English | ISBN: 0197516564 | 376 pages | EPUB | August 12, 2022 | 12,5 Mb
Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish and fanatical tendencies; U.S. growers thought of Mexicans as no more than a mere workforce not fit for citizenship; and industrial agriculture was celebrated for feeding American families while its exploitation of workers went largely ignored. Farmworkers were made out to be culturally vacuous and lacking creative genius, simple laborers caught in a vertiginous cycle of migrant work.

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Southern Beauty Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South

Southern Beauty Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South
Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South by Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd
English | ISBN: 082036231X, 0820362328 | 210 pages | EPUB | August 15, 2022 | 13 Mb
Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism.

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Sounding Salsa Performing Latin Music in New York City

Sounding Salsa Performing Latin Music in New York City
Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City By Christopher Washburne
2008 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1592133150 | PDF | 12 MB
This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. The author, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing and gigging of salsa bands.

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Songs of the Minotaur Hybridity and Popular Music in the Era of Globalization

Songs of the Minotaur Hybridity and Popular Music in the Era of Globalization
Songs of the Minotaur: Hybridity and Popular Music in the Era of Globalization By Gerhard Steingress
2003 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 3825863638 | PDF | 6 MB
In an age of globalization and rapidly changing musical landscapes, social scientists from different countries and disciplines attempt to analyze the contemporary cultural dynamics of some of the current ethnical musical styles with respect to their commont traits. Their approach is based on the conceptions of hybridity and hybridization as they are currently discussed in the cultural and social sciences as well as in musicology itself. Alluding to the labyrinth as a metaphor of the revelation of complex ramifications, it is hoped that this approach will provide a new theoretical and methodological access to the explanation of recent processes of cultural transformation within the field of popular music.

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Solar Panels (Free Gift Inside!) Steps to Build Your Own Solar Panels and More Inside!

Solar Panels (Free Gift Inside!) Steps to Build Your Own Solar Panels and More Inside!
Chris Sabem, "Solar Panels: (Free Gift Inside!) Steps to Build Your Own Solar Panels and More Inside!"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B00ZDLOQAQ | EPUB | pages: 70 | 1.1 mb
As the world moves towards solar energy, the popularity of solar panels increases too due to the advantages they hold such as production of clean energy and reduction of costs. There are a lot of decisions to make concerning installation of solar panels. You might wonder whether it is more suitable for you to buy a solar panel or build your own. All these choices have their advantages which are discussed in this book to help you make the best decision. If you choose to build your own then the book gives you step by step instructions on how to go about it from a single solar cell to a complete solar panel and the different ways you can choose to mount it.

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Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes Local and Global Perspectives

Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes Local and Global Perspectives
Paula Rautionaho, "Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes: Local and Global Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1032130369 | 2022 | 220 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives.

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Small Engines and Outdoor Power Equipment, Updated

Small Engines and Outdoor Power Equipment, Updated
Small Engines and Outdoor Power Equipment, Updated 2nd Edition: A Care & Repair Guide for: Lawn Mowers, Snowblowers & Small Gas-Powered Imple by Editors of Cool Springs Press
English | September 28, 2020 | ISBN: 0760368783 | 144 pages | MOBI | 34 Mb
This updated edition of the best-selling Small Engines and Power Equipmentis more than a simple engine repair manual. Designed for the beginner with little or no mechanical experience,this bookis a graphically appealing, step-by-step guide that covers all of the most important engine maintenance and repair skills you'll need to keep your equipment running at peak performance. It alsoshows exactly how to perform mechanical upkeep and repairs on the most common outdoor power implements.