El Legado Musical de Raphy Leavitt y su Orquesta La Selecta
by RAFAEL A. Leavitt-Rey ESTATE
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 the study. Blending oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace and...
Pitbull Anxiety Relief for Adults (Pitbull Anxiety Relief for Adults, #0)
by Serenity Olin
Jamaican Folk Music (Studies in the History & Interpretation of Music S., v. 66)
by Marilyn A. Rouse
!Ah y Le Lo Lay, Le Lo Ley! Musica Tipica de Puerto Rico
by Nereida Ayala-Guzman
Afro Cuban Rhythms Drums (Drummers collective) (Manhattan Music Publications - Drummers Collective)
by Frank Malabe, Louis Bauzo, Bob Weiner, and Daniel Thress
J Balvin Adult Activity Coloring Book (J Balvin Adult Activity Coloring Books, #0)
by Mary Crawford
A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader, Cortijo (1928–1982) revolutionized the country’s musical culture. His band, Cortijo y Su Combo,...
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 while analyzing the complex ideologies their music can communicate in their lyrics and rhythms, and how the meaning of songs and musical genres can vary depending on social and historical c...
Argentina is synonymous with its global music export, the tango. Born as an expression of the country's working classes in the brothels and bars of late nineteenth century Buenos Aires, this sensual and highly popular dance swept the world. However, the tango is just one of Argentina's vast musical treasures explored on this album. Over the years, Spanish stringed instruments and African rhythms have been incorporated into the array of indigenous styles, adding to the country's diverse musical o...
Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.