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Want to be able to name any note on your fretboard instantly? Discover the simple yet powerful 3 step process to lightning-fast note recognition, and join the ranks of informed guitar players today.Do you ever wonder how more advanced guitar players can easily tell...

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers--Myrta Silva, Ruth Fern疣dez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Ben?ez--to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly...

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...

Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and...

Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and...

Tiempo, a play-along for all levels from the members of Talking Drums, drops the percussionist into the center of an orbiting pulsation of rhythms and sonorous melodies. Although it is geared toward drumset and percussion players, it is equally valuable to all instrumentalists who...

John Kember's ingenious arrangements bring the sounds of the tropics within the grasp of the intermediate pianist (Grade 4-6). Whether you find yourself in Brazil, Mexico, Cuba or Puerto Rico, this is the spirit of carnival and these rhythms can only mean an unbridled...

In 2010, master drummer Fidel Morales published his Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset and Percussion, Volume 1, in which he illustrated the concept of Latin rudiments, mainly based on the accents used in Cuban music. Now, in his second book, Afro-Cuban Techniques for Drumset and...

12 easy to play Tango tunes.Arranged for chromatic harmonica.This is not intended as a definitve book on Tango for chromatic harmonica, it is a book for harmonica players wishing to experiment and have fun learning a new genre.Tunes in music notation and harmonica tablature.No...

The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph...

The tango is the king of the Latin dances. The captivating rhythms and seductive melodies of the tango have captured the imaginations of musicians and composers for many years. The tango has even found its place in the world of concert musical literature due...

Focusing on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73), Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government situates the discourses and artistic production linked to the Chilean New Song movement, in order to...

Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in...

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...

A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages. Long recognized as a foundation of musical composition, criticism, pedagogy, and appreciation, the literature of ancient and...

'Music Scenes and Migrations' brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe. Moving beyond now-contested models for conceptualizing international musical relations and hierarchies of powers and...

This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M....

While this material is rather short, is profound enough to show the way in how the three powers which drive Cuban dance music are articulated. Here are explained, in novel ways, some important topics of Cuban popular music, considered quite complex; and other unknown...

This book is a comparative analysis of the history of popular music and folk studies in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil as it relates to society, culture, and representations of national identity.Author: T穗ia Da Costa GarciaISBN-10: 1498571026ISBN-13: 9781498571029Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2019Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize:...

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha....

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje--the mixing of race and culture--in...

Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers-Myrta Silva, Ruth Fern疣dez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Ben?ez-to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly...

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaet n, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaet n musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism...

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...

In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as "the music of the enemy," leading...

This book is a study of chang?, a particular style of music and dance in Guant疣amo, Cuba, and the roots of son, the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in Eastern Cuba. The book also highlights the connections between Afro-Haitian...

What an exciting arrangement this is Chabrier's popular Espa a comes alive at two pianos in this wonderful arrangement by Richard Simm. Drawing directly from the orchestral score, Simm uses the full resources of the piano to create a setting which will be fun...

It's time to infuse your playing with a little hot-blooded romance! The Total Latin Guitarist is an exciting journey into the world of Latin guitar playing. The book begins by teaching you soloing and accompaniment techniques used in all genres of Latin music, as...

The beauty of the Barcarolle . . . the sumptuous flair of the flamenco dancer . . . the death-defying life of the torero . . . this third book in Catherine Rollin's fiery series serves up five late intermediate solos to tantalize and...

The 'O' Antiphons: Latin and Greek with Gregorian Chant, Old Hymnary and Scripture References provides readers with the Great Antiphons, the Magnificat antiphons to be used during Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in the Western Rite of the Catholic Faith. They...

VOICES OF LATIN ROCK THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT CREATED THIS SOUNDAuthor: Jim McCarthyISBN-10: 063408061XISBN-13: 9780634080616Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2004Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 01/24/2005

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics--identity, the body, religion, and more--and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and cultural-historical contexts. With its brisk...