Author: Malena Kuss
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: america, latin, central, american, south, art, culture, peoples, latino, beliefs, encyclopedic, caribbean, history, volume, music, performing, indigenous
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0292702981
ISBN-13: 9780292702981

The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool tha

Authors:Stavros Kromidas, Hans -Joachim Kuss,
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: data, chromatographic, guide, practical, quantification
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-11-09
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 3527323015
ISBN-13: 9783527323012

Closing a gap in the current literature by addressing the evaluation and quality assessment of raw data, this practice-oriented guide is clearly divided into three parts. The first describes basic considerations of chromatographic data quality, common errors and potential pitfalls in reading out and quantifying the data. Part two systematically covers the most important chromatographic methods as well as the specific requirements for obtaining good chromatographic data. The final part looks at data quality from the perspective of those regulatory authorities demanding certain standards in data