Music-Genres & Styles-Latin

While this material is rather short, is profound enough to show the way in how the three powers which drive Cuban dance music are articulated. Here are explained, in novel ways, some important topics of Cuban popular music, considered quite complex; and other unknown...

This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil as it relates to society, culture, and representations of national identity.Author: T穗ia Da Costa GarciaISBN-10: 1498571026ISBN-13: 9781498571029Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2019Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize:...

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha....

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...

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...

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...

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic...

In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as "the music of the enemy," leading...

This book is a study of chang?, a particular style of music and dance in Guant疣amo, Cuba, and the roots of son, the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in Eastern Cuba. The book also highlights the connections between Afro-Haitian...

What an exciting arrangement this is Chabrier's popular Espa a comes alive at two pianos in this wonderful arrangement by Richard Simm. Drawing directly from the orchestral score, Simm uses the full resources of the piano to create a setting which will be fun...

It's time to infuse your playing with a little hot-blooded romance! The Total Latin Guitarist is an exciting journey into the world of Latin guitar playing. The book begins by teaching you soloing and accompaniment techniques used in all genres of Latin music, as...

The beauty of the Barcarolle . . . the sumptuous flair of the flamenco dancer . . . the death-defying life of the torero . . . this third book in Catherine Rollin's fiery series serves up five late intermediate solos to tantalize and...

The 'O' Antiphons: Latin and Greek with Gregorian Chant, Old Hymnary and Scripture References provides readers with the Great Antiphons, the Magnificat antiphons to be used during Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in the Western Rite of the Catholic Faith. They...

VOICES OF LATIN ROCK THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT CREATED THIS SOUNDAuthor: Jim McCarthyISBN-10: 063408061XISBN-13: 9780634080616Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2004Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 01/24/2005

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics--identity, the body, religion, and more--and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and cultural-historical contexts. With its brisk...