Música Típica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Música Típica write by Sean Bellaviti. This book was released on 2020. Música Típica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, author Sean Bellaviti offers an insightful new look at how music plays in the formation of national identity by providing a social history and ethnographic account of Panama's most widely embraced musical form: popular cumbia or, as it is more commonly referred to, música típica.
Música Tejana
Música Tejana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Música Tejana write by Manuel H. Peña. This book was released on 1999. Música Tejana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pena traces the history of musica tejana from the fandangos and bailes of the nineteenth century through the cancion ranchera and the politically informed corrido to the most recent forms of Tejano music.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music
Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music write by George Torres. This book was released on 2013-03-27. Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive survey examines Latin American music, focusing on popular—as opposed to folk or art—music and containing more than 200 entries on the concepts and terminology, ensembles, and instruments that the genre comprises. The rich and soulful character of Latin American culture is expressed most vividly in the sounds and expressions of its musical heritage. While other scholars have attempted to define and interpret this body of work, no other resource has provided such a detailed view of the topic, covering everything from the mambo and unique music instruments to the biographies of famous Latino musicians. Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music delivers scholarly, authoritative, and accessible information on the subject, and is the only single-volume reference in English that is devoted to an encyclopedic study of the popular music in this genre. This comprehensive text—organized alphabetically—contains roughly 200 entries and includes a chronology, discussion of themes in Latin American music, and 37 biographical sidebars of significant musicians and performers. The depth and scope of the book's coverage will benefit music courses, as well as studies in Latin American history, multicultural perspectives, and popular culture.
Mexico
Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexico write by Don M. Coerver. This book was released on 2004-09-22. Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise overview of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico, this volume explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the world's largest Spanish-speaking country. From NAFTA to narcotics, from immigration to energy, the ties that bind our nation and Mexico are varied and strong. Mexico uncovers the real Mexico that lies behind the stereotypes of tacos, tequila, and tourist hotels. Compiled by leading scholars of Mexican history and society, its more than 150 entries examine the nation in all its fascinating contradictions and complexity. This concise yet thorough study, covering the last 100 years of Mexican history, is the only one volume, A–Z reference work available to students, scholars, and readers curious about one of the world's most diverse and dynamic societies. What was the Mexican Revolution all about? Who are the Zapatistas? And why do Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Mexicans are America's largest immigrant group and Mexico is America's favorite tourist destination. Yet we need to learn more and understand better our fascinating neighbor to the south. Mexico—comprehensive and accessible—is the best place to start.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music write by Ruth M. Stone. This book was released on 2017-09-25. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume reference work, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world in nine volumes. The tenth volume houses reference tools and descriptive information about the encyclopedia’s structure, criteria for inclusion and other information specific to the field of ethnomusicology. An award-winning reference, its contributions are from top researchers around the world who were active in fieldwork and from key institutions with programs in ethnomusicology. GEWM has become a familiar acronym, and it remains highly revered for its scholarship, uncontested in being the sole encompassing reference work with a broad survey of world music. More than 9,000 pages, with musical illustrations, photographs and drawings, it is accompanied by 300+ audio examples.
