Music-Genres & Styles-Latin

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...

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...

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...

Liederbuch (in Deutsch & English) f? die Okarina mit 6 Lhern 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 Te gibt eine einfache Tabulatur an, es sind...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...