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  • Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music by Karush, Matthew B.
    Matthew B. Karush

    Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

    In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alem n, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger...
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  • El Entierro de Cortijo/Cortijo's Wake by Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo
    Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

    El Entierro de Cortijo/Cortijo's Wake

    A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodr guez Juli 's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following...
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  • Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York by Miller, Sue
    Sue Miller

    Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York

    Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled...
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  • Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930 by Wolkowicz, Vera
    Vera Wolkowicz

    Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930

    The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom...
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  • Sweet Penance of Music: Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile by Vera, Alejandro
    Alejandro Vera

    Sweet Penance of Music: Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile

    A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers...
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  • Música Típica: Cumbia and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Panama by Bellaviti, Sean
    Sean Bellaviti

    M俍ica T厓ica: Cumbia and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Panama

    The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In M俍ica T厓ica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element of...
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  • Tracing Tangueros Cilam P by Link, Kacey
    Kacey Link

    Tracing Tangueros Cilam P

    Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100...
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  • Sounds of Spain, Bk 4: 5 Colorful Early Advanced Piano Solos in Spanish Styles by Rollin, Catherine
    Catherine Rollin

    Sounds of Spain, Bk 4: 5 Colorful Early Advanced Piano Solos in Spanish Styles

    The strumming of Spanish guitars, the lyrical tribute to a great Spanish composer, the passionate excitement of Iberian sensations, the breathtaking exuberance of Spanish rhythms, the reminiscence of Spanish culture---Spanish elements are infused in each of these five pieces. Rolled chords evoking a Spanish...
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  • Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music by Cobo, Leila
    Leila Cobo

    Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music

    A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the...
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  • Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio by Espinoza Agurto, Andrés
    Andrés Espinoza Agurto

    Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio

    This volume explores the significations and developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musico-poetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s. This movement is largely linked to the development of Nuyolatino popular music...
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  • Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music: The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960-85 by Baker, Stuart
    Stuart Baker

    Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Album Cover Art of Cuban Music: The Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1960-85

    Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution. The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and...
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  • Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae by Manuel, Peter
    Peter Manuel

    Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

    First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the world. This third edition of the award-winning book is substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of new developments, such as the global spread...
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  • Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz by Washburne, Christopher
    Christopher Washburne

    Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz

    Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from...
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  • Brazilian Tangos and Dances for the Piano by Nazareth, Ernesto
    Ernesto Nazareth

    Brazilian Tangos and Dances for the Piano

    Brazilian pianist/composer Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (1863-1934) composed approximately 210 works for the piano. His tangos Brejerio" and "Odeon" were immensely popular during his lifetime and continue to be two of the most popular pieces ever written by a Brazilian salon composer. Written for...
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  • Los Lobos: Dream in Blue by Morris, Chris
    Chris Morris

    Los Lobos: Dream in Blue

    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...
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  • New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990 by Lapidus, Benjamin
    Benjamin Lapidus

    New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990

    New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean come together to make music. In this book, Benjamin Lapidus...
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  • The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond by Morales, Ed
    Ed Morales

    The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond

    The Latin explosion of Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, and the Buena Vista Social Club may look like it came out of nowhere, but the incredible variety of Latin music has been transforming the United States since the turn of the century, when Caribbean beats...
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  • Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico by Rivera-Rideau, Petra R.
    Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

    Remixing Reggaet: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaet n, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaet n musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism...
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  • Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation by Flores, Juan
    Juan Flores

    Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation

    In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was...
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  • The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles by Kun, Josh
    Josh Kun

    The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles

    In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song "The Tide Is High," originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session...
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  • New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990 by Lapidus, Benjamin
    Benjamin Lapidus

    New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990

    New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean come together to make music. In this book, Benjamin Lapidus...
    $110.00
    $110.00
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  • Changuito: A Master's Approach to Timbales, Book & Online Audio [With CD] by Quintana Changuito, José Luis
    José Luis Quintana Changuito

    Changuito: A Master's Approach to Timbales, Book & Online Audio [With CD]

    This text and audio package teaches timbales as played by the master percussionist Changuito. Topics include set-up, tuning, the clave, fills, independence exercises, listening recommendations, and a glossary of terms. Various styles are studied such as Danzon, Abanico, Cha-Cha-Cha, Mambo, Pilon, Mozambique, Merengsongo, Conga,...
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  • Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drum Set & Percussion by Morales, Fidel
    Fidel Morales

    Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drum Set & Percussion

    Fundamentals such as clave, patterns, interdependence, "3 against 2", and ostinatos are only some of the tools that are taught in this book. These will allow Afro-Cuban drum set students, percussionists and all musicians who study this book to progressively internalize the concept of...
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  • Afro-Cuban Percussion Workbook by Lanoue, Curtis
    Curtis Lanoue

    Afro-Cuban Percussion Workbook

    -Provides an encyclopedic collection of Cuban rhythms and styles for congas, timbales, and full percussion sections.-Congueros of all levels will benefit not only from the section for congas, but also by understand the accompanying patterns the timbales play for each rhythm/style. Vice versa for...
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  • Book of Salsa by Rondón, César Miguel
    C駸ar Miguel Rond

    Book of Salsa

    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only...
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  • American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in Us Popular Music / Latinos Y Latinas En La Musica Popular Estadounidense by Berríos-Miranda, Marisol
    Marisol Berr?s-Miranda

    American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in Us Popular Music / Latinos Y Latinas En La Musica Popular Estadounidense

    Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between...
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  • Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900-1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz by Serrano, Basilio
    Basilio Serrano

    Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900-1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz

    Musicians from Puerto Rico played a substantial role in the development of jazz during the early years of the twentieth century, before and during the years surrounding the Harlem Renaissance. These jazz pioneers, including instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists, were products of the Puerto Rican...
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  • Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer: Volume 51 by Guevara, Rubén Funkahuatl
    Rub駭 Funkahuatl Guevara

    Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer: Volume 51

    A pioneer of Chicano rock, Rub駭 Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is best known as the front man of the 1970s experimental rock band Ruben And The Jets. Here he recounts how...
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  • A First Book of Latin Music: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s by Lansing, Peter
    Peter Lansing

    A First Book of Latin Music: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s

    From the ancient Spanish ballad "Roman Castillo" to "La Paloma," "El Choclo," "La Cumparista," and other tango tunes, this beginner's compilation abounds in zesty, traditional music. More than two dozen simplified renditions of beloved songs also include "La Cintura," an Ecuadorian folksong; the ever-popular...
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  • Corazón Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music by Hudson, Kathleen A.
    Kathleen A. Hudson

    Coraz Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music

    Coraz n Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews with longtime stalwarts of Mexican American music--Flaco Jim nez, Tish Hinojosa,...
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  • Gilberto Gil's Refazenda by Hertzman, Marc A.
    Marc A. Hertzman

    Gilberto Gil's Refazenda

    Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans often project (or impose)...
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  • The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations by Caicedo, Patricia
    Patricia Caicedo

    The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations

    Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in...
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  • Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades by Sharp, Daniel B.
    Daniel B. Sharp

    Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades

    The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph...
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  • The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings by Nappo, Daniel J.
    Daniel J. Nappo

    The Poetry and Music of Joaqu? Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings

    The Poetry and Music of Joaqu? Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is a thoroughly researched exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the celebrated Spanish singer-songwriter Joaqu? Sabina. Often called "the Spanish Dylan," Sabina has established his own highly poetic space...
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  • Panpipes & Ponchos: Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia by Rios, Fernando
    Fernando Rios

    Panpipes & Ponchos: Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia

    Melodious panpipes and kena flutes. The shimmering strums of a charango. Poncho-clad musicians playing "El Cdor Pasa" at subway stops or street corners while selling their recordings. These sounds and images no doubt come to mind for many "world music" fans when they recall...
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  • Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art by Chaves, Rui
    Rui Chaves

    Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art

    From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound. This is the backdrop for Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, a volume that offers an overview...
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  • Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend by Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield
    Marcia Hatfield Daudistel

    Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend

    In the vast, sparsely populated area of West Texas known as the Big Bend, life takes place on a different scale. The nearest neighbor can be forty miles away, perhaps located not just in another town but another country, the border historically less obvious...
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  • Selena: Como La Flor by Patoski, Joe Nick
    Joe Nick Patoski

    Selena: Como La Flor

    A lovingly documented biography of music superstar Selena Quintanilla's life, work, and musical legacy. Selena Quintanilla was a vibrant musical performer, wildly pouplar in the growing field of Tejano music. But her rising star suddenly fell when she was murdered at the age of...
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  • The Essential Guitar Fretboard Guide: 3 Easy Steps To Quickly Unlocking The Notes On Your Fretboard by Laughton, Sean
    Sean Laughton

    The Essential Guitar Fretboard Guide: 3 Easy Steps To Quickly Unlocking The Notes On Your Fretboard

    Want to be able to name any note on your fretboard instantly? Discover the simple yet powerful 3 step process to lightning-fast note recognition, and join the ranks of informed guitar players today.Do you ever wonder how more advanced guitar players can easily tell...
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  • The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music by Fiol-Matta, Licia
    Licia Fiol-Matta

    The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

    Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers--Myrta Silva, Ruth Fern疣dez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Ben?ez--to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly...
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  • Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre by Fernández l'Hoeste, Héctor
    Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste

    Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

    Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic...
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  • The City of Musical Memory by Waxer, Lise A.
    Lise A. Waxer

    The City of Musical Memory

    Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and...
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  • Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation by Miller, Sue
    Sue Miller

    Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation

    Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and...
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  • Tiempo: Book & 2 CDs by Garibaldi, David
    David Garibaldi

    Tiempo: Book & Online Audio

    Tiempo, a play-along for all levels from the members of Talking Drums, drops the percussionist into the center of an orbiting pulsation of rhythms and sonorous melodies. Although it is geared toward drumset and percussion players, it is equally valuable to all instrumentalists who...
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  • Play Latin Piano: All-Time Hits from Latin America by Kember, John
    John Kember

    Play Latin Piano: All-Time Hits from Latin America

    John Kember's ingenious arrangements bring the sounds of the tropics within the grasp of the intermediate pianist (Grade 4-6). Whether you find yourself in Brazil, Mexico, Cuba or Puerto Rico, this is the spirit of carnival and these rhythms can only mean an unbridled...
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  • Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset & Percussion - Vol. 2 by Morales, Fidel
    Fidel Morales

    Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset & Percussion - Vol. 2

    In 2010, master drummer Fidel Morales published his Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset and Percussion, Volume 1, in which he illustrated the concept of Latin rudiments, mainly based on the accents used in Cuban music. Now, in his second book, Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset and...
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  • Tango for Chromatic Harmonica by Brown, Dave
    Dave Brown

    Tango for Chromatic Harmonica

    12 easy to play Tango tunes.Arranged for chromatic harmonica.This is not intended as a definitve book on Tango for chromatic harmonica, it is a book for harmonica players wishing to experiment and have fun learning a new genre.Tunes in music notation and harmonica tablature.No...
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  • Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades by Sharp, Daniel B.
    Daniel B. Sharp

    Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades

    The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph...
    $80.00
    $80.00
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  • Guitar Tangos: For Plectrum Guitar by Bay, William a.
    William a. Bay

    Guitar Tangos: For Plectrum Guitar

    The tango is the king of the Latin dances. The captivating rhythms and seductive melodies of the tango have captured the imaginations of musicians and composers for many years. The tango has even found its place in the world of concert musical literature due...
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  • Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government: Voices for a Revolution by Schmiedecke, Natália Ayo
    Nat疝ia Ayo Schmiedecke

    Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government: Voices for a Revolution

    Focusing on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73), Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government situates the discourses and artistic production linked to the Chilean New Song movement, in order to...
    $95.00
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