“My Guitar is Not for the Rich”: The New Chilean Song Movement and the Politics of Culture

El análisis del movimiento de la Nueva Canción Chilena, de gran popularidad a fines de la década de los 60 y principios de los 70, puede guiarnos hacia la conexión entre temas políticos y culturales, al tiempo que ayuda a aclarar parte de la compleja narrativa de esta época. Por lo menos el enfoque de la política en la cultura, y viceversa, demuestra que esitía un nexo claro entre las ideas políticas y económicas de los líderes de izquierda y de los artistas. En este artículo se hace precisamente el estudio de la narrativa de la Nueva Canción Chilena y su relación estrecha con el movimiento político de izquierda anterior a la elección de Salvador Allende.     

Complementary and alternative medicine as represented in the HIV/AIDS body of knowledge: a bibliometric analysis

Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic began more than twenty years ago, there still is no cure for the disease and no vaccine to prevent infection. As with the general population, individuals with HIV/AIDS have sought care using a variety of traditional and nontraditional approaches. The popularity of complementary and alternative interventions among the HIV/AIDS community continues. To understand better the distribution of the HIV/AIDS body of knowledge concerning complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), this study sought to (1) examine the literature specific to the use of complementary and alternative medicine where HIV/AIDS is concerned to determine publication patterns; (2) determine the degree of overlap among bibliographic citation databases that index the literature concerning the use of CAM practices in treating HIV/AIDS; and (3) facilitate access to this body of literature.     

Letter to the editor

V.P. Marketing &; Sales Questor Systems     

Developing and managing individualized studies programs: Some guidelines

This paper presents eight guidelines that educators should follow in developing and managing undergraduate individualized studies (contract learning-type) programs. The guidelines fall under the headings (1) supplying rationales, (2) focusing on the faculty, (3) assessing faculty performance, (4) assessing student readiness, (5) assessing the costs, (6) students as researchers, (7) how much academic credit, and (8) agents of change. A main theme presented is that the student-centered focus in individualized studies programs needs to be matched by an equal regard for the faculty member.