Manuel Ponce

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Specific Output ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
The World ◽  
Manuel Ponce

Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (b. Fresnillo, Zacatecas, 8 December 1882–d. Mexico City, 24 April 1948) is one of Mexico’s foremost composers and has been widely acknowledged as a pioneer of musical nationalism in his country. His prolific catalogue contains more than 300 compositions. A cultured man, he wrote over 200 essays on musical topics and was the founding editor of three influential music journals: Revista Musical de México (Mexico City, 1919–1920), Gaceta Musical (Paris, 1928–1929), and Cultura Musical (Mexico City, 1936–1937). On occasion, he used the anagrammed pen names Noé Mac Púlmen or Noé Mac Ulpmen. Polyglot and multifaceted, he undertook an array of activities: teacher, lecturer, researcher, editor, music critic, administrator, conductor, pianist, and composer. Ponce studied music in Mexico City, Bologna, Berlin, and in Paris at the École Normale de Musique with Paul Dukas. His eclectic style ranges from baroque, classical, and romantic to impressionistic, neoclassic, and neoromantic. Influences from the music of Spain, Cuba, and especially from Mexico are also found. Ponce first gained transnational exposure as the composer of the song Estrellita (1912). Subsequently, the quality and quantity of his guitar works, including the celebrated Concierto del sur (1940), became one of the single most important contributions to the literature of that instrument. Recent decades have witnessed an increase in scholarly texts on Ponce. Internationally known for his guitar works, that specific output has received widespread attention in editions, articles, and recordings. Fewer texts are to be found concerning the rest of his musical catalogue as well as on his writings. During his lifetime, abundant newspapers closely followed his career. Later, Ponce’s birth and death anniversaries have prompted bursts of publications. The present and future are promising as more performers and scholars around the world are getting drawn to the Mexican composer. Ponce married contralto Clema Maurel in 1917. They had no children. In 1936, Carlos Vázquez became Ponce’s piano student and, with time, one of his closest disciples and ultimately his heir. After Ponce’s demise, Clema, with the assistance of Carlos, worked tirelessly to preserve, edit, and disseminate the composer’s work. Following her passing, Carlos carried on with these endeavors for the rest of his life.

scholarly journals Surviving on the Periphery of a City of Earthquakes

Eos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Basilio
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The World

Mexico City is one of the most disaster-prone urban areas in the world. Following an earthquake, marginalized communities living on the city’s periphery are exposed to more dangers than just collapsing buildings.

scholarly journals PREFACE: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Trichoptera

Zoosymposia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
KATARZYNA MAJECKA ◽  
JANUSZ MAJECKI ◽  
JOHN MORSE
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
13Th International Symposium ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
European Forest

The 13th International Symposium on Trichoptera took place in Bialowieża, Poland, in 22-27 June 2009, but the idea to organize the symposium there was evoked 3 years earlier.  When, at the end of the symposium in Mexico City, Professor Hans Malicky suggested that the next symposium take place in Poland, the first question we asked ourselves was, “Where could we organize it?”  That night we were discussing this issue with several colleagues and Wolfram Mey said, “Why not do it in Białowieża?” The idea was tempting.  In the last 2 decades Trichoptera symposia were organized in big cities. The last one even took place in one of the largest cities of the world—Mexico City. By contrast, Białowieża is just a small village; but for researchers it is paradise. The significance of this last natural European forest for science is reflected in the presence of many scientific institutions there. And so, we decided that Bialowieża would be a perfect venue for our symposium.

Race

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-56
Author(s):  
Marissa K. López
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Stage

This chapter begins with the discovery, in 1790, of the Aztec Sun Stone in Mexico City and a description of indigenous Mexican conceptions of time and history. The chapter uses the contrast between these and European notions of time and subjectivity to frame its argument about Gilb’s narrative and temporal play, using the scientific ambiguity surrounding affect to outline a nonrepresentational way of reading race, a strategy built on “racial immanence.” Across Gilb’s oeuvre, the body maintains an ambiguous and tenuous relation to language and narrative, becoming, in later works, a way of being in the world, a mode of interpretation. To get at the imbrication of words and feelings, or text and body, the author defines her concept of “racial immanence,” and so this first chapter sets the theoretical stage for the readings that follow.

Co-creation and the state in a global context

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Sue Brownill ◽  
Oscar Natividad Puig
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
To Come ◽  
North And South

This chapter draws on debates about the need for theory to ‘see from the South’ (Watson, 2009) to critically reflect on the increasingly global nature of co-creation both as a focus for research and for initiatives from governments around the world. It explores whether current understandings of co-creation narratives, which have tended to come from the Global North, can adequately characterise and understand the experience from the South, and the resulting need to decolonise knowledge and conduct research into the diverse ways in which co-creation can be constituted. It goes on to illustrate these debates by exploring the differing contexts for co-creation created by state-civil society relations in the project’s participating countries. These show that, while distinct contrasts emerge, it is important to move beyond dichotomies of north and south to explore the spaces of participation and resistance that are created within different contexts and how these are navigated by projects and communities engaged in co-creation. The chapter draws on material from interviews with local stakeholders and academics involved in the Co-Creation project and project conferences in Rio, Mexico City and Berlin.

Getting to Mexico City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Olcott
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Leader ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
International Women's Year

This chapter examines how the IWY conference, originally planned to take place in Bogota, Colombia, came to be held in Mexico City. It considers both Mexican president Luis Echeverría’s personal ambitions as a global leader as well as the burgeoning feminist movement within Mexico. The Mexican government agreed to host not only the intergovernmental conference but also a parallel NGO tribune, creating the conditions for a transformative aspect of the International Women’s Year. The last-minute relocation to Mexico City also resulted in the New York–based NGO leaders taking charge of the tribune, drawing heavily on their involvement with the 1974 UN Population Conference and the World YWCA.

1968 Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares: Imagining and Imaging Modernity on Television

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste Gonzáález de Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Sources

Juxtaposing televised news coverage of the 1968 student movements and Olympics in Mexico City, the author examines the mass media's role during this politically volatile year for the country and the world. Through an analysis of news scripts located in Televisa's news archive, the article demonstrates that news executives and government officials pursued a similar goal——to portray the country as modern, orderly, and peaceful. At the same time, through the use of alternative sources of media, students delivered their messages to the public, telling a much different story.

Impacts of Megacities on Air Quality: Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa T. Molina ◽  
Tong Zhu ◽  
Wei Wan ◽  
Bhola R. Gurjar
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Air Quality Management ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The World

Megacities (metropolitan areas with populations over 10 million) and large urban centers present a major challenge for the global environment. Transportation, industrial activities, and energy demand have increased in megacities due to population growth and unsustainable urban development, leading to increasing levels of air pollution that subject the residents to the health risks associated with harmful pollutants, and impose heavy economic and social costs. Although much progress has been made in reducing air pollution in developed and some developing world megacities, there are many remaining challenges in achieving cleaner and breathable air for their residents. As centers of economic growth, scientific advancement, and technology innovation, however, these urban settings also offer unique opportunities to capitalize on the multiple benefits that can be achieved by optimizing energy use, reducing atmospheric pollution, minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, and bringing many social benefits. Realizing such benefits will, however, require strong and wide-ranging institutional cooperation, public awareness, and multi-stakeholder involvement. This is especially critical as the phenomenon of urbanization continues in virtually all countries of the world, and more megacities will be added to the world, with the majority of them located in developing countries. The air quality and emission mitigation strategies of eight megacities—Mexico City, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai—are presented as examples of the environmental challenges experienced by large urban centers. While these megacities share common problems of air pollution due to the rapid growth in population and urbanization, each city has its own unique circumstances—geographical location, meteorology, sources of emissions, human and financial resources, and institutional capacity—to address them. Nevertheless, the need for an integrated multidisciplinary approach to air quality management is the same. Mexico City’s air pollution problem was considered among the worst in the world in the 1980s due to rapid population growth, uncontrolled urban development, and energy consumption. After three decades of implementing successive comprehensive air quality management programs that combined regulatory actions with technological change and were based on scientific, technical, social, and political considerations, Mexico City has made significant progress in improving its air quality; however, ozone and particulate matter are still at levels above the respective Mexican air quality standards. Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu are microcosms of megacities in the People’s Republic of China, with rapid socioeconomic development, expanding urbanization, and swift industrialization since the era of reform and opening up began in the late 1970s, leading to severe air pollution. In 2013, the Chinese government issued the Action Plan for Air Pollution Prevention and Control. Through scientific research and regional coordinated air pollution control actions implemented by the Chinese government authority, the concentration of atmospheric pollutants in several major cities has decreased substantially. About 20% of total megacities’ populations in the world reside in Indian megacities; the population is projected to increase, with Delhi becoming the largest megacity by 2030. The increased demands of energy and transportation, as well as other sources such as biomass burning, have led to severe air pollution. The air quality trends for some pollutants have reduced as a result of emissions control measures implemented by the Indian government; however, the level of particulate matter is still higher than the national standards and is one of the leading causes of premature deaths. The examples of the eight cities illustrate that although most air pollution problems are caused by local or regional sources of emissions, air pollutants are transported from state to state and across international borders; therefore, international coordination and collaboration should be strongly encouraged. Based on the available technical-scientific information, the regulations, standards, and policies for the reduction of polluting emissions can be formulated and implemented, which combined with adequate surveillance, enforcement, and compliance, would lead to progressive air quality improvement that benefits the population and the environment. The experience and the lessons learned from the eight megacities can be valuable for other large urban centers confronting similar air pollution challenges.

The Mexico Earthquake of September 19, 1985—Past Decisions, Present Danger: An Historical Perspective on Ecology and Earthquakes in Mexico City

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tobriner
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mexico Earthquake

Why is one of the most populous cities in the world built on land which has a history of subsidence, seismicity, and flooding? Mexico City illustrates how early decisions in a city's history can create difficult conditions for building well and living safely. The Aztecs had little choice but to live on the muddy islands in Lake Texcoco which now lie beneath downtown Mexico City. But the Spanish did have a choice. By selecting the island capital of Tenochtitlan for their colonial capital they bequeathed to succeeding generations problems which were apparent to them almost immediately after they began construction. Their solution to the hydraulic problems of the site only exacerbated ecological and seismic problems which the inhabitants of Mexico City face today, and destroyed the reason the first settlers inhabited the Valley of Mexico.

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