El jazz en México

'El Cantar de Valtario', una de las obras más relevantes de la literatura latina medieval, es al tiempo una narración de aventuras. Su héroe, Valtario, desarrolla sus hazañas (huida de la corte de Atila con su prometida, combates desiguales, regreso victo

¿Qué hay de común entre el violinista cíngaro de un restaurante de Budapest y los cantos de una comunidad cíngara de lo más recóndito del campo húngaro?¿Y a quién pertenecen las melodías y los ritmos que tanto sedujeron a Liszt y a Brahms? Este libro muestra que no hay “una” sino “unas” músicas cíngaras en Hungría vinculadas a dos grandes grupos cíngaros de expresiones musicales extremadamente diferentes: la música instrumental de los rumungre en la que se unen el sentimiento nacional húngaro y la sensibilidad cíngara (cuya obra emblemática podría ser la famosa...

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...

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.