Practical Applications

Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 14 songs from Colombian singer/songwriter/guitarist Juanes, who the All Music Guide calls "perhaps the biggest and most important popular Latin music artist in the world in the early 21st century." He's won a record 17 Grammy Awards, including five in 2008 alone! This collection includes: A Dios Le Pido * Es Por Ti * Fijate Bien * Fotografia * Gotas De Agua Dulce * La Camisa Negra * La Paga * Lo Que Me Gusta a Mi * Me Enamora * Nada * Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor * Te Busque * Tres * Volverte a Ver. Spanish lyrics.

"El 28 de julio de 1978 me encontró abrigado. Había faltado al colegio. Estaba desde el mediodía haciendo cola en el Luna Park para entrar a ver algo denominado Festival de la Fundación Genética Humana (...) Iba a presentarse para un público masivo la nueva banda de Charly García". De esta manera, invocando sensaciones personales mientras se preparaba para asistir a los comienzos de la leyenda, inicia su análisis Walter Domínguez. De allí en más, acompañado por el relato coral de distintos músicos, el autor se sumerge en una deconstrucción exhaustiva de la obra de Serú Girán,...

A fundamental guide to understanding rap in all its complexities by one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and his lucid college friend. This provocative and entertaining essay collection attempts to scrutinize the genre through the lens of sociology, economics, philosophy, and law by means of a back-and-forth exchange between the authors. A fundamental guide to understanding rap in all its complexities by one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and his lucid college friend. This provocative and entertaining essay collection attempts to scrutinize the genre through...