Memorias de Antonio Morales "Junior," mucho antes de dejarme

Durante más de cinco años, Juan Carlos Diez compartió incontables horas con el Flaco. El fruto de esos encuentros es esta hoja de ruta arbitraria que nos permite asomarnos al universo de este artista singular.

Bachata—a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s—is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata’s history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth...

Sin pretensiones de descifrar el complejo problema de los orígenes del cante flamenco, este libro intenta aproximarse a tan controvertido tema desde una perspectiva innovadora. Trata de analizar la aparición del flamenco desde un enfoque intrínseco al cante entendiéndolo, no como un hecho musical aislado de su entorno y supuestamente enraizado en vagos y ancestrales influjos étnicos, sino interpretándolo primordialmente como un hecho social inserto en la sensibilidad romántica de mediados del siglo pasado, es decir, como producto de coordenadas socio-históricas, que en el orden...

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.