The creation, musical character, key songs and cultural legacy of guarania, the Paraguayan genre developed by José Asunción Flores in the 1920s.
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The life, novels, memoir, screenwriting and legacy of Cuban-born writer Eliseo Alberto, whose work held affection, political criticism and exile in productive tension.
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The life, musical research, international career and cultural legacy of Susana Baca, the singer who made Afro-Peruvian poetry and rhythm audible around the world.
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The engineering background, wire figures, mobiles, stabiles and legacy of Alexander Calder, who made real movement and changing balance central to modern sculpture.
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The life, paintings, etchings, workshop and legacy of Rembrandt van Rijn, whose light and tactile brushwork gave biblical history and individual faces profound presence.
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The chronology, techniques, major sites and conservation of Spain's Palaeolithic cave art and later open-shelter traditions, from Altamira to the Mediterranean arc.
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The life, involuntary memory, social observation and literary legacy of Marcel Proust, author of the seven-volume In Search of Lost Time.
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The difficult childhood, songs, spoken performance, peace advocacy and legacy of Argentine singer-songwriter and storyteller Facundo Cabral.
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The Chilean origins, exile, instruments, major albums and enduring legacy of Los Jaivas, whose music created an original encounter between rock and Andean traditions.
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