Voces de Italia (con CD)

This introductory piano method is a long overdue musical text for those interested in encouraging bilingualism in children and adults. Many of the selected tunes are gems that most Latin American children grow up hearing as part of their idiomatic folklore. Also presented are some award winning originals by the author herself. Songs include Senora Santana, Ojos Azules, Mama yo quiero, Mi gallo and many others. Songs are chosen from many hispanic countries and they can be played as piano solos as well as played and sung simultaneously. Includes guitar/piano for those wishing to add in harmony...

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...

Exploración de algunas de las manifestaciones de la actual escena musical contemporánea como un poderoso instrumento en la formación de valores sociales e ideológicos.

En este libro, Peter Kivy presenta una seleccion de sus escritos mas recientes sobre filosofia de la musica, un campo en el que ha sido, durante muchos anos, uno de los especialistas mas reconocidos. Con su caracteristico estilo informal y elegante, Kivy realiza un analisis de temas como la musicologia y su historia, la naturaleza de las obras musicales y la funcion de las emociones en la musica, todo ello en un tono que atraera por igual la atencion de los amantes de la musica y la filosofia. La mayoria de los ensayos recogidos en esta obra son ineditos. Todos ellos son de agradable lectura...