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Author:Ray Allen
Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York
Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for...- $46.99
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Author:Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music
Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of 20th and 21st century popular music in Puerto Rico. The essays in this volume, written by both local experts and leading scholars, contextualize under-researched...- $49.99
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Author:Alexandra T. Vazquez
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music
Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic...- $107.95
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Author:Rui Chaves
Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art
From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound. This is the backdrop for Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, a volume that offers an overview...- $175.00
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Author:Pablo Palomino
Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History
The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"? Reconstructing how this category...- $44.99
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Author:Elza Soares
Elza Soares - Musical Trajectory
Elza Soares (1937-2022) is the best Brazil. With her singularly raspy voice, she dared to name the many forms of hunger humanity experiences - not only for food, but also for sexual freedom, racial equality, art, and beauty."I always thought women needed to be...- $20.50
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Author:Humberto Morales
Humberto Morales' Latin-American Rhythm Instruments and How to Play Them
Humberto Morales' Latin-American Rhythm Instruments And How To Play Them is a comprehensive guide to the traditional percussion instruments used in Latin American music. Written by the renowned musician and educator Humberto Morales, the book provides detailed information on the history, construction, and playing...- $37.95
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Author:Walter Aaron Clark
From Tejano to Tango: Essays on Latin American Popular Music
Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well...- $170.00
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Author:David Garcia
Arsenio Rodr?uez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music
David Garcia traces Arsenio Rodriguez's early career in Cuba, his influence on Cuban and Latin popular music in the 1940s, his struggle for recognition at the height of mambo-mania in the 1950s, and his importance to Puerto Rican and Cuban communities in New York...- $31.95
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Author:Erin E. Bauer
Flaco's Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto
A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced the genre and the work of conjunto masters...- $30.00
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Author:George Alexander Macfarren
Counterpoint: A Practical Course Of Study
Counterpoint: A Practical Course of Study is a comprehensive guide to the principles and techniques of counterpoint, written by British composer and musicologist George Alexander MacFarren. The book is designed to provide a practical and step-by-step approach to learning counterpoint, which is the art...- $22.95
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Author:Edward Durlacher
Square Dances For Piano And Violin: Together With Calls, Explanations And Illustrations Of The Dances
""Square Dances for Piano and Violin"" is a comprehensive guidebook that includes sheet music, calls, explanations, and illustrations for a variety of square dances. Written by Edward Durlacher, a renowned dance instructor and choreographer, this book is designed to help musicians and dancers perform...- $18.95
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Author:Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil - Musical Trajectory
Gilberto Gil (1942- ) is not just a musician. From an icon of the counterculture to Minister of Culture, he is the purest manifestation of what it means to be a Brazilian popular artist."In the process of writing songs, you discover you can talk...- $27.50
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Author:Sydney Hutchinson
Salsa World: A Global Dance in Local Contexts
Since its emergence in the 1960s, salsa has transformed from a symbol of Nuyorican pride into an emblem of pan-Latinism and finally a form of global popular culture. While Latinos all over the world have developed and even exported their own "dance accents," local...- $30.95
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Author:Tom Jobim
Tom Jobim - Musical Trajectory
Tom Jobim (1927-1994) was the leader of a delicate revolution. The transformation he set in motion through bossa nova was so subtle that we often forget just how profoundly he altered the course of Brazilian music - as if it were all "very natural.""My...- $22.50
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Author:Bettina Schipp
Ocarina Songbook - 6 Lher/holes - Tango, Salsa & more: Ohne Noten - no music notes + Sounds online
Liederbuch (in Deutsch & English) f? die Okarina mit 6 Lhern mit 14 Tangos, Salsas und Songs aus artverwandten Genres.Die Melodien wurden mit Griffbildern nach dem bekannten Griffsystem "English Crossfingering" aufbereitet. Die Rhythmik der zu spielenden Te gibt eine einfache Tabulatur an, es sind...- $12.76
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Author:Sarah Finley
Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond
Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the African Atlantic. Prior studies in this vein focus on the phonic contours of slavery and its afterlives in Anglophone or...- $99.95
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Author:Sarah Finley
Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond
Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the African Atlantic. Prior studies in this vein focus on the phonic contours of slavery and its afterlives in Anglophone or...- $34.95
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Author:Mark Brill
Music of Latin America and the Caribbean
Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book is about enjoying the music itself and provides...- $94.95
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Author:Jason Webster
The Art of Flamenco
What is duende?The Art of Flamenco sees Jason Webster revisit the subject which inspired his first book: the mysterious yet essential power which lies at the heart of Spain's most iconic musical expression. Moved by the flamenco dance perfomances of his wife, Salud, Webster...- $12.95
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Author:Bettina Schipp
Songbook Chromatic Harmonica - Tango, Salsa & more: + Sounds Online
Songbook with 20 Tangos, Salsas and more songs from related genres - simply notated for the chromatic Harmonica.The tones of the melodies were prepared with simple symbols, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs are...- $14.97
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Author:R. H. Mason
A Sentry Guide to Popular, Jazz and Orchestral Brazilian Music
Explore the vibrant tapestry of Brazil's musical heritage with our comprehensive guide that unravels the rich history, diverse genres, and iconic artists in Brazilian pop, jazz, and orchestral music. Immerse yourself in the rhythms of Bossa Nova, savor the complexity of Brazilian jazz, and...- $19.99
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Author:Peter Manuel
Flamenco Music: History, Forms, Culture
An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music's history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco's Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel...- $35.00
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Author:Christopher Washburne
Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City
This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. The author, himself an accomplished salsa musican, examines the organisational structures, recording processes, rehearsing and gigging of salsa bands.Author: Christopher...- $32.95
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Author:Peter Manuel
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
This is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers. One group...- $45.95
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Author:Emilio Morales
Cuban Masters Series: Piano
At last, you can take a lesson from a Cuban piano master. Emilio Morales, along with musicologist Jon Griffin, will guide you through the full array of Cuban styles. From traditional Cha-cha-ch and bolero to son moderno and timba. This book will show you...- $24.99
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Author:Kevin Moore
Beyond Salsa Piano: The Cuban Timba Revolution - Tirso Duarte - Piano Tumbaos of Charanga Habanera
This is the 14th volume of "Beyond Salsa Piano" and the first on Tirso Duarte, pianist, arranger, composer and singer for the great late-1990s incarnation of Charanga Habanera, recording artist and bandleader under his own name, and ex-singer for NG La Banda and Pupy...- $31.65
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Author:Kevin Moore
Beyond Salsa Bass: The Cuban Timba Revolution - Latin Bass for Beginners
(book only - audio files are a separate downloadable purchase - the book also contains a link to a smaller free download of audio files)THIS BOOK: Beyond Salsa Bass, Vol. 2 covers the same period as Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 2 - Cuba from...- $32.08
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Author:Robert Nasatir
Cuban Troubadours: Nueva Trova and Contemporary Cuban Song
In this comprehensive new guide, Robert Nasatir delves into the history of Cuba's nueva trova and its legacy, providing context for the most popular songs of the past three decades.Nasatir begins his journey in 1986, a pivotal moment for Cuban music. It was in...- $19.95
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Author:William Gradante
Foundations of Mariachi Education: Materials, Methods, and Resources
Foundations of Mariachi Education: Materials, Methods, and Resources, the first book of its kind, is a comprehensive handbook on teaching mariachi in secondary school to music students of all levels. Beginning with how to start a mariachi program, each chapter addresses a specific topic...- $53.00
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Author:Marc A. Hertzman
Gilberto Gil's Refazenda
Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans often project (or impose)...- $80.00
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Author:Rub駭 Funkahuatl Guevara
Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer: Volume 51
A pioneer of Chicano rock, Rub駭 Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is best known as the front man of the 1970s experimental rock band Ruben And The Jets. Here he recounts how...- $95.00
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Author:Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus
Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion
Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been portrayed as a nationalist artist both at home and beyond Mexico's borders. However, the musicking of a presumed "Mexicanness" was far from Revueltas' mind. In Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion, author Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus shows how...- $137.00
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Author:David Marlatt
La Virgen de la Macarena: Part(s)
La Virgin de la Macarena is a traditional bullfighting song made famous by the great trumpet virtuoso Raphael Mendez. All the flashy pyrotechnics in the original solo part are present. In setting the tone for this arrangement, a short introduction is included which quotes...- $9.00
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Author:Daniel J. Nappo
The Poetry and Music of Joaqu? Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings
The Poetry and Music of Joaqu? Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is a thoroughly researched exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the celebrated Spanish singer-songwriter Joaqu? Sabina. Often called "the Spanish Dylan," Sabina has established his own highly poetic space...- $39.99
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Author:Alan Gout
Play Latin Trumpet: All-Time Hits from Latin America
Heat, passion, sensuality and pulsating rhythm are the very life blood of Latin America, is an exotic world superbly contained in these amazing arrangements for intermediate-level trumpet with simple piano parts. You can swing to the frenzied rhythms of Tico Tico, wallow in nostalgia...- $16.25
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Author:Alan Gout
Play Latin Clarinet: All-Time Hits from Latin America
Heat, passion, sensuality and pulsating rhythm are the very life blood of Latin American - an exotic world superbly encapsulated in these stunning arrangements for intermediate-level B-flat clarinet, with simple piano parts. Swing to the frenzied rhythms of Tico Tico, wallow on nostalgia with...- $16.25
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Author:Alurista Hayes-Bautista
Floricanto En Aztlan
With these one hundred poems Alurista created a highly original poetics that upset the literary conventions of the era. Floricanto en Aztl疣 was published in 1971, a time of Chicano activism and the search for a Chicano identity. Using Aztl疣, the mythical homeland of...- $24.95
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Author:Helio Orovio
Cuban Music from A to Z
Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world's richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances...- $26.95
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Author:Dave Brown
Presenting Atahualpa Yupanqui: 16 solos for Low G ukulele
Presenting the music of Atahualpa Yupanqui.An exciting new finger-picking ukulele book.16 solos arranged for Low G ukulele. Tunes are in music and tab format.Atahualpa was a composer, songwriter, and political activist from Argentina. His music captures the sounds and struggles of the Quechua people...- $11.14
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Author:Andrew Snyder
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Ethnography explores political activism of carnival brass bands in BrazilCritical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one...- $26.95
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Author:Patricia Caicedo
Anthology of Art Songs by Latin American & Iberian Women Composers V.2
The second volume of the Anthology of Art Songs by Latin American and Iberian Women Composers. It contains 31 songs for voice and piano in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese by 10 composers from Argentina, Brazil, Catalunya, Cuba, and Colombia. The book includes a bilingual...- $70.00
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Author:Morgan James Luker
The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music--it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James...- $32.00
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Author:Kevin Moore
Beyond Salsa for Beginners: The Cuban Timba Revolution: An Introduction to Latin Music for Dancers and Listeners
After writing over 20 instructional books on Cuban piano, congas, drums, timbales, clave and bass, this is Kevin Moore's first book for non-musicians - listeners, dancers and fans of Latin music. Beyond Salsa alternates between "Listening Tours" (music history, analysis of songs, and record-collecting...- $32.33
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Author:Matthew B. Karush
Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music
In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alem n, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger...- $27.95
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Author:Matthew B. Karush
Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music
In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alem n, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger...- $102.95
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Author:Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá
El Entierro de Cortijo/Cortijo's Wake
A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodr guez Juli 's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following...- $24.95
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Author:Sue Miller
Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York
Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled...- $35.00
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Author:Vera Wolkowicz
Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930
The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom...- $80.00
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Author:Alejandro Vera
Sweet Penance of Music: Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile
A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers...- $130.00
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