In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Aleman, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger Mercedes Sosa, and rock musician Gustavo Santaolalla. As active participants in the globalized music business, these artists interacted with musicians and audiences in the Unite...
Salsa music has conquered the world in recent years, with an ever-growing number of people enjoying the rhythms and dances. A host of Latin American countries have each thrown into the mix their own particular brand of this swinging, vibrant sound, and Colombia has been at the forefront of them. Well-known names such as Fruko, Joe Arroyo and the Latin Brothers have spearheaded the Colombian cause, but new artists continue to come forward, adding their unique, brilliant touches to the genre. This...
Grandes Boleros de Mario Clavell
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by Rosalyn Cobb
The Essential Guitar Fretboard Guide (Learn the Guitar Fretboard, #1) (Complete Beginner Guitar Lessons, #1)
by Sean Laughton
The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious examples of how central Latin music is to American musical life. Latino rap has brought a musical revolution, while Latin and Brazilian jazz are ever more significant on the jazz scene. With the first edition of The Latin Tinge, John Storm Roberts offered revolutionary insight into the enormous importance of Latin influences in U.S. popular music of all kinds. Now, in this revised...
The Invention of Latin American Music (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)
by Pablo Palomino
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 came to be, author Pablo Palomino tells the dynamic history of the modernization of musical practices in Latin America. He focuses on the intellectual, commercial, musicological, and diplomatic actors that s...