Francisco de Salinas

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...

Esta obra parte de un examen de la musica occidental de los ultimos 400 anos, asi como de la musica de los paises africanos y asiaticos, para hacernos ver como la naturaleza de una sociedad se puede deducir a partir de su musica y como las diferentes pautas y modelos musicales no solo pueden reflejar los cambios que se dan en la sociedad, sino incluso influir sobre ellos.

El mar de los deseos. El Caribe afroandaluz, historia y contrapunto constituye un estudio histórico sobre la formas musicales originadas en el Caribe. Analiza las condiciones históricas, así como los diferentes mestizajes que dieron origen a lo que el autor denomina un “cancionero” de la época colonial, que incluye culturas como la africana, española e iberoamericana.

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...