Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Latin

Por fin, puedes aprovechar una leccion de un maestro del piano cubano. Emilio Morales, junto con el musicologo Jon Griffin, te guiara por toda la gama de estilos musicales cubanos. De lo tradicional Cha-cha-cha y el bolero moderno a son moderno y la timba. Este libro te mostrara muchos ejemplos reales de la musica cubana, no solamente un manojo de ejercicios para practicar.

Incluye:

• Entender Montuno
• Son Montuno
• Variaciones de Montuno
• Cha-cha-cha
• Danzon
• Forma de Danzon
• Bolero
• Mambo
• Tocar el...

Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of "La Bamba" became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band's new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across four decades, Los Lobos (Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, and Steve Berlin) have ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from rockabilly to primal punk rock, R&B to country and folk, Mexican son jarocho to Tex-Mex conjunto...

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje?the mixing of race and culture?in the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music.

Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin...

From its emergence as political and social commentary in the 1960s, nueva trova became a defining feature of Cuban musical culture. This study of contemporary Cuban song shows how it has developed over the years and has risen and fallen in cultural relevance, like the social themes reflected in the lyrics.

While there are a number of works in Spanish about this artistic movement, this is the first in English that explains this important aspect of Cuban culture. The time span-more than fifty years-allows for analysis of how this particular art form has changed over time. While...