El jazz en México

El propósito de François-René Tranchefort ha sido trazar un panorama ‹lo más representativo posible‹ de Los instrumentos musicales en el mundo, desde los más sencillos hasta los más perfeccionados. Se trata, en última instancia, de suministrar un conocimiento concreto de las «máquinas» de hacer sonidos, referido a su historia, su construcción y su técnica. La importancia dada a las civilizaciones extra-europeas, relegadas hasta hace poco al ámbito de la etnomusicología, y el rechazo de la segregación de la música «popular» respecto a la música «culta» permiten...

Those that Fly without Wings is a study concentrating on the practice of music and dance within a Chilean immigrant community in Oslo. It is a qualitative and interpretive account of how music activity plays a part in the negotiation and construction of immigrant identity, as well as how it gives a voice to tensions and contradictions within an immigrant group in an urban landscape. The study concerns a community with a considerable musical activity of various Latin American genres, taking place in public as well as private arenas. By engaging with both historical and present discourses in...

"This is a short but dense novel that epitomizes postmodern writing in contemporary Venezuelan literature. Castañeda uses Bocaccio's and Cervantes' views on the novel to justify the mixing of many rhetoric conventions, enhancing the artificiality of literature in a text that parodies an interpretive essay but deviates onto different paths, some not quite successful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Quiero Tocar El Bajo, del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es un libro esencial para todos aquellos que quieren aprender a tocar el bajo, ya sea electrico o acustica.