Guns N' Roses: La Novela Gráfica del Rock

From the graphic novel experts Brian Williamson and Jim McCarthy comes a new explosive book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica. From their initial underground success to their Grammy wins and selling over 100 million albums, Metallica: Nothing Else Matters takes an emotional journey over two decades.

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.

This book, both a guide and encyclopedia, is a crucial account of the musical journey that will awaken the imagination of the reader, awakening the curiosity of all those sacred, famous, and historic places that the author of this book has visited that have marked the history of rock. The exceptional narrative talent of the author and the evocation of the mythic locations of rock make this an excellent a travel through the threads of music history.

El autor busca en las raíces de su pueblo esa nueva música que habrá de marcar la tónica del siglo xx. Así el jazz, los spirituals, los cantos de trabajo, tanto de las fábricas como del campo, lo impulsan hacia un camino determinado: aquel que habrá de conducir a la música social.

Este libro constituye una invitación especial para quienes se acerquen a su lectura disfruten también del maravilloso espectáculo multisensorial que nos aporta el flamenco. En su formato digital, con nuestros móviles o tablets, podemos acercarnos al texto y abrir directamente una ventana digital a las fascinantes melodías y ritmos que encierran el cante y el baile flamenco. Esta obra colectiva germina de la cooperación de personas expertas en distintas áreas del saber que comparten la pasión por el flamenco y la indagación por conocer lo que aporta la mujer a este género musical....