Vicente Emilio Sojo Works for Guitar, Volume 4

Contra la idea de que la globalización conduce a una cultura homogénea, bajo la batuta estandarizadora de los Estados Unidos, Néstor García Canclini dijo alguna vez que "hay muchas más oportunidades en nuestro futuro que optar entre McDonald's y Macondo". Las historias de músicos en tránsito que se cuentan en este libro muestran, precisamente, cómo algunos de los artistas más influyentes de la música popular argentina hicieron una carrera internacional y llegaron a públicos de todo el mundo, trabajando con creatividad esa tensión entre las demandas y limitaciones de un circuito...

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...

"I have affection for these lyrics, these flamenco poems, because I created them with care and dedication. My background is as a painter, but it's always bothered me that singers voiced the pains and joys of others. I've always thought that a person is better able to transmit a feeling if they're the one feeling it." Le tengo cariño a estas letras, a estos poemas flamencos, porque las hice con interés y dedicación. Sé que algunas son bonitas y todas cantables, para lo que fueron hechas. Soy pintor y con formación de pintor, pero me gustaba el cante, y me molestaba que el intérprete...

"A work ... founded on the system of Zarlino; indeed there is some reason to believe that it is a mere redaction of a work with the same title which Zarlino speaks of as having completed in ms., but which has totally disappeared." -Grove, Dict. of music.