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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...

Compilación de entrevistas y artículos sobre músicos cubanos y personalidades vinculadas a la música. La selección está dotada de originalidad y avalada por musicólogos y periodistas de la cultura (Leonardo Padura, Radamés Giro, Helio Orovio, Leonardo Acosta, etc.).

El ensayo definitivo sobre el disco más importante de la historia del hip hop. En el año 1993 la cultura hip hop vivía sus años dorados en Estados Unidos. Dos décadas le había tomado al rap erigirse como indiscutible catalizador de la realidad política, social, económica y artística de los barrios marginados de la potencia mundial. A golpe de beat, sample y rima, la música protesta se alejaba de las guitarras. En ese contexto ve la luz el álbum Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), debut del clan neoyorquino que lideraría el resurgir de la costa este como estandarte del rap hardcore...

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....