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  • The Latin Tinge

    The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States

    The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious symptoms of how central Latin music is to American musical life. Latino rap has brought a musical revolution, while Latin and Brazilian jazz are ever more significant on the jazz scene. With the first edition of The Latin Tinge, John Storm Roberts offered revolutionary insight into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cortijo's Wake / El entierro de Cortijo

    Translated by Juan Flores ...
    A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cuban Music from A to Z

    by Helio Orovio ...
    Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With more than 1,300 entries and 150 illustrations, this volume is an essential reference guide to the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Salsa and Its Transnational Moves

    Salsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a brilliant critical analysis of salsa dancing in a major North American city. Drawing from a vast number of disciplines, author Sheenagh Pietrobruno focuses on the tension between the status of dance as a bodily expression of identity and its function as a cultural commodity within the economic life of modern day cities. This engaging work investigates ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Queens of Havana

    The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band

    “This evocative memoir is a joyous, rhythmic history” of the 11-sister dance band that broke musical and cultural barriers in 1930s Cuba and beyond (Publishers Weekly).In the 1930s, Havana was the place to be for tourists, ex-pats, celebrities, and excitement-seekers. Nights were filled with drinking, dancing, romance, and the roar of infectious music spilling from cafés into the streets. It was a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Salsa

    A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    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 in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Foundations of Mariachi Education

    Materials, Methods, and Resources

    Edited by William Gradante ...
    Foundations of Mariachi Education: Materials, Methods, and Resources, the first book of its kind, is a comprehensive handbook on teaching mariachi in secondary school to music students of all levels. Beginning with how to start a mariachi program, each chapter addresses a specific topic in mariachi education, including choosing appropriate repertoire, preparing for performances, and teaching each ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Origins of Cuban Music and Dance

    Changüí

    Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí is the first in-depth study of changüí, a style of music and dance in Guantánamo, Cuba. Changüí is analogous to blues in the United States and is a crucible of Cuban Creole culture. Benjamin Lapidus describes changüí and its relationship to the roots of son, Cuba's national genre and the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Cuando la memoria era un río…

    Cantares de Osvaldo Torres

    El Norte Grande de Chile, ha contribuido a otorgarle a este país una nueva y rica sonoridad: la andina. La Nueva Canción Chilena usó estos recursos. El sonido de la quena, zampoña y charango ayudó a saber algo más de este desconocido territorio para el resto de los chilenos. La obra de Osvaldo Torres, primero junto a Illapu y luego como solista, transita en la década de los 70 y los 80, por la ... Read more

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  • Mira niñita: Creación y experiencias de rockeras chilenas

    Cración y experiencias de rockeras chilenas

    by Fabio Salas ...
    La pregunta que enfrenta este libro es por aquello que hace particular la presencia de la mujer en el rock. ¿Es posible hacer rock desde la condición de género? ¿En qué consistiría la diferencia, en términos expresivos, de contenido y estéticos? Esto ya ha sido planteado en literatura, tanto por la búsqueda de lo femenino en la escritura como por la definición de géneros literarios femeninos. Este ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pensar la música desde América Latina: Problemas e interrogantes

    Problemas e Interrogantes

    La música latinoamericana es apasionada y rítmica, pero también triste y reflexiva. En este libro, el musicólogo Juan Pablo González busca articular un pensamiento desde lo que nos ofrece la música, los músicos, las audiencias y las industrias culturales en América Latina. Un pensamiento que permita acercarse a América Latina desde dentro, desde sus venas cerradas, desde aquellas que marcan su ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Canciones y percusiones

    Manual para la enseñanza creativa del solfeo elemental

    by Gina Allende ...
    El Manual contiene un conjunto de canciones y ejercicios que han sido elaborados a la luz de necesidades pedagógicas en la enseñanza de la lectura musical y práctica auditiva de nivel básico. Cada canción genera un módulo de trabajo con contenidos preferentemente rítmicos y melódicos posibles de ser abordados en etapas. Ambos aspectos, en ocasiones combinados con otros elementos musicales, se ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Oye Como Va!

    Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music

    Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called "Latin" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente’s tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. Like Puente and Santana, Latino/a musicians ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mambo Kingdon: Latin Music in New York

    by Max Salazar ...
    Shortly after Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, they began moving into an uptown Manhattan neighborhood that would become known as "Spanish Harlem." By 1930, Afro-Cuban music had gained a firm foothold in the city, setting the stage for the mambo, boogaloo, salsa and Latin-jazz scenes that followed. In this collection of profiles and essays, Max Salazar, perhaps the most eminent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Yo

    by Ricky Martin ...
    El artista Ricky Martin quien ha vendido mas de 60 millones de albumes en todo el mundo habla por primera vez sobre su infancia, sus comienzos musicales en el grupo Menudo, su busqueda de identidad durante el fenomeno de "Livin La Vida Loca", la aceptacion de su sexualidad, las relaciones en las que descubrio el amor y las decisiones que cambiaron su vida como el convertirse en padre y su ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Buena Vista in the Club

    Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

    Series series Refiguring American music
    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 reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba’s national culture. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop

    Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities

    Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture—specifically hip-hop and rap—are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with addressing why and how hip-hop has migrated so effectively to Colombia’s black ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Manuel de Falla: His life & Works

    Manuel de Falla's music perfectly reflected the full-blooded passion and intellectual aspirations of early 20th century Spanish culture. His personal life seemed to echo the spirit of his times and the broad range of his music. From his sensual treatment of Andalusian folk themes to the neoclassical compositions of his later years, de Falla always brought a fierce level of intensity to everything ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Contemporary Carioca

    Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

    Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    by Umi Vaughan ...
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. As an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer who lived in Cuba, Vaughan reveals a unique ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • From Tejano to Tango

    Essays on Latin American Popular Music

    Edited by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Chasing the Sun

    by Juanes ...
    “I’m doing what I believe I was brought to this world to do: to create music that raises awareness, renews hearts, and generates change. I’ll continue looking to the stars and traveling the globe as God permits me. And I hope I have many years left to connect through art, to play my guitar, and to continue chasing the sun.”—JuanesIn Chasing the Sun, the international music icon and humanitarian ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Persiguiendo el sol

    by Juanes ...
    “Yo, por mi lado, cumplo con hacer lo que creo que he venido a hacer al mundo: tocar y componer música buscando con ello despertar conciencias, renovar corazones y generar un cambio. Seguiré mirando las estrellas y viajando por el mundo hasta que Dios me lo permita. Ojalá pueda seguir por muchos años más conectando vidas a través del arte, tocando mi guitarra y persiguiendo el sol”. --JuanesEn ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Song and Social Change in Latin America

    Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the Nueva Canción in Central America, Rock in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru, the Vallenato in Colombia, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD