Ayer, Yo Fui Feliz

This introductory piano method is a long overdue musical text for those interested in encouraging bilingualism in children and adults. Many of the selected tunes are gems that most Latin American children grow up hearing as part of their idiomatic folklore. Also presented are some award winning originals by the author herself. Songs include Senora Santana, Ojos Azules, Mama yo quiero, Mi gallo and many others. Songs are chosen from many hispanic countries and they can be played as piano solos as well as played and sung simultaneously. Includes guitar/piano for those wishing to add in harmony...

"I have affection for these lyrics, these flamenco poems, because I created them with care and dedication. My background is as a painter, but it's always bothered me that singers voiced the pains and joys of others. I've always thought that a person is better able to transmit a feeling if they're the one feeling it." Le tengo cariño a estas letras, a estos poemas flamencos, porque las hice con interés y dedicación. Sé que algunas son bonitas y todas cantables, para lo que fueron hechas. Soy pintor y con formación de pintor, pero me gustaba el cante, y me molestaba que el intérprete...

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? Or, What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 - the year in which Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula coincided with Christopher Columbus's landing on Hispaniola - and 1933 - when Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca published his "Theory and Play of the Duende" - the Moor became Black, and how the imagined Gitano ("Gypsy," or Roma) embodies the warring images and sounds of this process. By the nineteenth-century...

El presente volumen es una recopilación de los trabajos más actuales sobre el tema de género desde la perspectiva femenina. Recoge una selección de estudios de investigadoras reconocidas en su ámbito de trabajo: desde musicólogas, compositoras y docentes, hasta artistas y especialistas en arte y literatura. Es un compendio con rigor científico y calidad investigadora que ahonda en temas de actualidad docente, transferencia del conocimiento y perspectiva de género. Es un libro escrito por mujeres investigadoras y docentes que describen resultados de sus trabajos sobre el papel de las...