Freak Scene: Los chalados e inconformistas que crearon la música independiente, 1975-2005

Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...

Transcripción completa de la documentación manuscrita del legado de Francisco Asenjo Barbieri sobre el Teatro de los Caños del Peral.

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...

Un libro que todos los amantes del rock deben tener. La música pop es, sencillamente, música popular. Cualquier género musical es popular, según la Gran Enciclopedia Larousse, cuando por definición es lo propio del pueblo, en contraposición a aquello que es culto; masivo, en contraste con los llamados géneros cultos y los no comerciales. Pero hay que tener claro que éstos no son otra cosa que estilos menos populares, hechos no obstante con alguna intención comercial. Es un contrasentido, por lo demás. Cuando alguien compone o interpreta una canción, busca que se conozca, que...