Historia sencilla de la música

Catálogo de la exposición de los instrumentos que pertenecen al Fondo Antiguo del Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía. La exposición presenta instrumentos mecánicos del siglo XIX y XX, soportes programados y sonoros de diferentes instrumentos, partituras, accesorios... etc. También una selección de piezas asociadas a los avances científicos del siglo XIX y XX relacionadas con el sonido, con la imagen y con las nuevas formas de transmisión de la música y la palabra a través de la radio y del cine.

(Instrumental Solo). Commissioned by Leigh Howard Stevens with a Consortium Commissioning Grant from NEA.

A crossroads of old blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, and country gave life to the sound that revolutionized the youth s universe: the sound of rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll was created and shaped by country boys moving to the city, young boys such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, and the Burnette Brothers. This book is a comprehensive description of the key musicians that shaped rock 'n' roll s legend, as well as one of its main subgenres, rockabilly."

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...