Poesía del flamenco

From its origins in Ragtime and Blues, the passionate life and main themes of the greatest singers and musicians, this book discusses the history of one of America's greatest inventions, with chapters ranging from its historical beginnings to jazz in films.

Las ocho sonatas de violín y bajo de José Herrando que aquí se publican originalmente se encontraban en el Palacio de Liria, propiedad de los Duques de Alba, copiadas en un manuscrito del siglo XVIII que tenía por título Doce tocatas a solo de violín y bajo para el Ex[elentísi]mo S[eño]r Duque de Huéscar. Lamentablemente, este manuscrito, junto a otras composiciones de Herrando, se destruyó en un incendio ocurrido en 1936, durante la Guerra Civil. Por fortuna, en 1928 el musicólogo José Subirá, que había estudiado los documentos musicales que se conservaban en el Palacio de...

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...