Publications

Purchase the Raza de Oro CD

On October 12, 2010, Los Cenzontles released Raza de Oro ("Golden People"), a collection of Mexican roots music that plays tribute to the legacy of Mexican-American culture, featuring guest stars Ry Cooder, David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) and Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship).

Los Cenzontles are in the midst of one of their momentous chapters. Earlier this year they recorded and performed various tracks with The Chieftains and Ry Cooder on their critically acclaimed album San Patricio and collaborated with Linda Ronstadt, Los Tigres Del Norte, and Taj Mahal, among others. The New York Times praised the group's last album American Horizon, as "something completely new", while Relix noted it "feels like America's future."

STREB

How To Become An Extreme Action Hero by Elizabeth Streb

Elizabeth Streb has been testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go? Combining memoir and theory, Streb conveys how she became an extreme action choreographer, developing a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance, more boxing than ballet. This book is for those who try or are willing to do just about anything to become a hero in their own way. Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith, Introduction by Peggy Phelan.

". . . it’s incredibly well written, blazingly articulate, brimming with ideas regarding space, time, movement—as if Martha Graham and Albert Einstein had a love child and named her Streb; like Batman and Robin gave her the secret code to how to explain all that happens behind KAPOW, SPLAT, and ZOWIE."
—A.M. Homes

"Fearlessness and intelligence combined—that is what makes Elizabeth Streb's work so potent and beautiful."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov

URBAN BUSH WOMEN

Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It out by Nadine George-Graves

Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Nadine George-Graves is associate professor in the Department of Theater and Dance and affiliate faculty in African American studies, ethnic studies, and critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego. Ms. George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.

URBAN WORD

Vacations on the Black Star Line by Michael Cirelli

Michael Cirelli's first collection, Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard (Hanging Loose, 2008), was a New York Times bestseller from an independent press and was featured in the "debut poets" issue of Poets & Writers magazine.

His second collection, Vacations on the Black Star Line, features more work from this acclaimed spoken word poet who Kanye West has hailed as a writer who "reveals the great artistry of poets and rappers and shows how hip-hop is the evolution of classic poetry."