Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America

(Fast Track Music Instruction). Spanish edition of the best-selling guitar instruction book featuring down to earth instruction that will get you playing today's music fast!

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...

The “Bolero” has been part of the sentimental education, not only to inhabitants of Cuba (where the music evolved), or Mexicans (where it became a national art form), but to countless persons around the world, in a study that features “Bésame mucho” and hundreds of additional songs.

Este es el primer libro en décadas consagrado a la discusión de las teorías existentes en una disciplina que ha sido puesta en cuestión por el advenimiento de la globalización, la fusión incontrolada de los géneros, la pérdida de las identidades y el surgimiento de las músicas del mundo. En el primer volumen de esta exploración se ha desarrollado lo que hemos denominado 'Teorías de la simplicidad'. En este segundo volumen se examinan críticamente las formulaciones complejas de la antropología de la música comparativa, los modelos cognitivos, lingüísticos y semiológicos y las...