The Romance of Commerce and Culture or Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform

Author: James Sloan Allen

The story of how art and intellect fused with consumer capitalism to create Aspen, CO.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Modernist Culture and Its Critics in Chicago
1	Modernist Marketing: The Consumer Revolution and the Container Corporation of America	3
2	Marketing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus in America	39
3	Great Books and Cultural Reform: The Chicago Bildungsideal	83
II	Healing the Wounds of War
4	The Magic Mountain: Discovering Aspen	119
5	Selling the Postwar Goethe	153
6	Celebrating the Postwar Goethe	180
7	The Birth of the Aspen Idea	208
III	Aspen and America in the Fifties - And After
8	Consensus, Criticism, and the New American Elite	237
9	The Aspen Muses and the Twilight of Modernism	268
10	Epilogue: The Romance of Commerce and Culture, 2002	291
	Notes	314
	Index	347

Interesting book: Lincolns Sanctuary or The Dark Valley

Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

Author: Charles A Perron

This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. It focuses on how traditional Brazilian musical styles have been influenced by international popular music to form new hybrids. Since the heyday of Carmen Miranda in the 1940s, Brazilian influences have been felt in the US, and this two-way street has resulted in an explosion of rich musical styles. With today's emphasis on Global Pop and World Music, there is great interest in Latin American musical forms. For anyone interested in the history and scope of Brazilian music, this volume is a must-read.