Music-Genres & Styles-Latin

Rapero. Actor. Luchador. Ícono de la moda. Un buen tipo en todos los sentidos. Es oficial: el artista de rap latino más grande del mundo es... Bad Bunny! Desde que cruzó el Atlántico desde Puerto Rico en 2016, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, como lo...

""Expression In Music: How To Obtain It"" by Hale Ascher VanderCook is a comprehensive guide to understanding and achieving musical expression. The book covers a range of topics including dynamics, phrasing, tempo, rhythm, and articulation, all of which are essential components of musical expression....

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic...

A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a distinctive genre in the 1930s. Merging storytelling with theory, Carlos Sandroni profiles performers, composers, and others...

Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a collection of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as representative, outstanding, and influential in the field, each article appears in English translation. A detailed new introduction by León and...

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has...

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...

Rapper. Singer. Actor. Wrestler. Fashion icon. All-round good guy. It's official: the biggest Latin trap star in the world in 2025 is... Bad Bunny! Since gliding stylishly out of Puerto Rico in 2018, he's redefined Latin music globally, credited with pushing Spanish-language rap into...

Afrodescendant religious music in the Caribbean and Latin America typically foregrounds drumming and centuries-old songs of praise to spirit deities. In recent years, a new form of worship, known as a violín or toque de violín, which features the violin alongside the guitar, electronic...

This book analyzes tango, specifically queer tango, and the role of musical practices and bodily expressions in social and cultural transformations in Buenos Aires.Author: Mercedes LiskaISBN-10: 1498538517ISBN-13: 9781498538510Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2016Pages: 182Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Choice 08/01/2017

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...

Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called Latin even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended...

Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative...

Afrodescendant religious music in the Caribbean and Latin America typically foregrounds drumming and centuries-old songs of praise to spirit deities. In recent years, a new form of worship, known as a violín or toque de violín, which features the violin alongside the guitar, electronic...

Latin music fans--from lovers of Bad Bunny to Selena, Juan Gabriel to Villano Antillano, and Romeo Santos to Shakira--will love Muévelo, a compelling look at the impact of Latin music in our lives, culture, and history. Podcast hosts of Radio Menea, Miriam Zoila Pérez...

This collection offers the first comprehensive analysis of Bad Bunny's impact on music, culture, and politics. Exploring his gender-fluid style, Afro-Caribbean aesthetics, and critiques of colonialism, the book highlights his role in amplifying marginalized voices. With contributions from diverse scholars, it presents a balanced...

This book unveils the vibrant and thriving world of Peruvian metal. It brings together a collection of Peruvian scholars, providing a long-overdue spotlight on a musical realm often overlooked in the international conversation.Author: José Ignacio López Ramírez GastónISBN-10: 1666929751ISBN-13: 9781666929751Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2023Pages:...

Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) is recognized as one of the most influential Latin American authors of the twentieth century. Although he helped establish the field of Afro-diasporic studies, his writings are still relatively unknown to the English-speaking world. In Fernando Ortiz on Music, accomplished ethnomusicologist...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance. 'As neat and comprehensive an account of both Tango history and technique...

This book analyzes tango, specifically queer tango, and the role of musical practices and bodily expressions in social and cultural transformations in Buenos Aires.Author: Mercedes LiskaISBN-10: 1498538533ISBN-13: 9781498538534Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2018Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. More than 40,000 recordings, all produced during the first half of the 20th century, have been digitized and are available to researchers and the general...

This book analyzes the music that young porteñas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the music and what the Argentinean youth use it to...

Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.Author: Lise WaxerISBN-10: 0815340192ISBN-13: 9780815340195Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2002Pages: 350Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.44h x 6.12w x 0.97d

Arsenio Rodr guez was one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century. In this first scholarly study, ethnomusicologist David F. Garc a examines Rodr guez's life, including the conjunto musical combo he led and the highly influential son montuno style of...

Creative Music For Children: A Plan Of Training Based On The Natural Evolution Of Music, Including The Making And Playing Of Instruments, Dancing, Singing, Poetry (1922) is a book written by Satis Narrona Coleman. The book is a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers, and...

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima....

This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re. Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad musical genres with the pulse, the attitude, and the energy...

Replaying Marc Anthony is the first book-length study of Marc Anthony's cultural, aesthetic, and political contributions to Latinx popular music and Latinx communities. Despite the trivializing label of "Latino pop," Anthony's repertoire has had a tremendous impact on his audience, particularly within the US...

The collected pieces in this compilation have been arranged from the original scores to be performed as recital pieces for accompanied flute.They are suitable for students studying at grade 4 -5 level, and are ideal pieces to aid sight reading of intermediate level challenges...

Replaying Marc Anthony is the first book-length study of Marc Anthony's cultural, aesthetic, and political contributions to Latinx popular music and Latinx communities. Despite the trivializing label of "Latino pop," Anthony's repertoire has had a tremendous impact on his audience, particularly within the US...

This volume explores the significations and developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musico-poetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s. This movement is largely linked to the development of Nuyolatino popular music...

The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years throughout the Spanish-speaking world, who also happens to be an acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway actor, a Harvard Law School graduate with a Master's degree in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Between 1935 and 1965, the bolero dominated the Latin American musical spectrum. It was first promoted by radio and live programs, then by 78, 46 and 33 RPM records called acetates, then by film and finally by television.It came from Spain to Cuba with...

Master the Art of Traditional Tango GuitarWant to discover the passion and depth of authentic Tango guitar?Ready to learn the authentic techniques that have shaped this timeless genre?The Tango Guitar Technique Book is the ultimate guide to mastering traditional Tango guitar. With its roots...

This collection offers the first comprehensive analysis of Bad Bunny's impact on music, culture, and politics. Exploring his gender-fluid style, Afro-Caribbean aesthetics, and critiques of colonialism, the book highlights his role in amplifying marginalized voices. With contributions from diverse scholars, it presents a balanced...

Author: Joe BoydISBN-13: 9798988670056Publisher: ZE BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 960Format: Paperback

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

""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...

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...