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Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group that sparked the emergence of the culture called punk.

Pop music has changed the way we walk down the street, see ourselves, and interact with the world around us. It's influenced our values, social customs, and attitudes about race, gender, religion, and politics. This book tells the history of pop music from the first recording in the late 1800s to today's world of Spotify with a focus on technological changes. Sus ritmos han influenciado la manera cómo caminamos por la calle, cómo nos vemos a nosotros mismos en el espejo, y cómo nos manejamos en el mundo que nos rodea. Ha influenciado nuestros valores y costumbres sociales; ha transformado...

La música es una de las ramas de las bellas artes que tiene su base en el campo artístico. Tiene que ver directamente con la estética, es decir, la estimación de la belleza que existe en el ritmo, la melodía, la polifonía la armonía y todos los elementos esenciales de la música. Por desgracia se ha olvidado en la vida contemporánea la esencia de la música que es para la creación de la personalidad y la belleza de la cultura en la historia de la humanidad. Dr. Adalberto García de Mendoza

Vladimir Jankélévitch argues that composer Franz Liszt was a leading champion of musical modernity who knew how to express the new aesthetic change of direction in 19th-century European music better than anyone, save Frédéric Chopin. This new style was the opposite of the abstract universality of the symphony and the totalitarianism of the Viennese conservatory. With the reinforcement of national and even provincial rights, the so-called savagery of rhapsody finally turned its back to solemn music, thus beginning the revolution of humility. Liszt gave voice to the land, much as Victor...