Músicas cubanas (con CD)

In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history--encyclopedia entries, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, classic success stories--Marcus brings to the forefront 10 essential songs that, for their influence and how they have resonated throughout the decades, have surpassed a milestone of pop music. This book includes brief biographies of the songs' writers and performers and captures the essence of each pop entry--everlasting yet at the same time fleeting....

(Music Sales America). A comprehensive Spanish-language guitar chord directory in a convenient slim-line format that fits in your guitar case. Far more than just a simple chord book, Manual De Acordes Para Guitarra also features countless inversions, mobile chords, details of the cycle of fifths and much more.

Este music logo franc s ha escrito un completo manual de iniciaci n a la m sica, a trav s del panorama hist rico por el que se detiene a explicar el desarrollo, tendencias, figuras, composiciones y g neros que han dado a este arte el rango que ha gozado durante milenios.

Bachata—a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s—is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata’s history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth...