Cantar y animar con canciones

EL PRIMER BEST-SELLER DE ESPAÑA El librero de Segovia Hernando del Castillo llevaba 20 años recopilando los poemas que circulaban entre sus coetáneos de finales del siglo XV en España cuando, por fin, encontró en Valencia al mercader Lorenzo Ganot y a Cristóbal Cofman, un impresor de Basilea, dispuestos a invertir dinero y esfuerzo en el desafío de editar una compilación de poemas y coplas que no se hubieran publicado con anterioridad o tuvieran una difusión muy restringida. La empresa buscaba la rentabilidad, por lo que la Valencia de la época, en plena ebullición política y...

There is a woman who appears and disappears in the life of this almost 60-year-old musician, like an angel or demon, and removes everything. So much so that this confessional story begins that has the intensity with which a stranger is spoken to a stranger in a bar. Deeply traversed by music, history covers the character's relationship with alcohol, with women, with children, with the passage of time, but also with his artistic decisions and the role of his generation in culture and society. The songs are entangled in the discourse as in life, that echo in the wood that becomes lyrics and...

In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history--encyclopedia entries, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, classic success stories--Marcus brings to the forefront 10 essential songs that, for their influence and how they have resonated throughout the decades, have surpassed a milestone of pop music. This book includes brief biographies of the songs' writers and performers and captures the essence of each pop entry--everlasting yet at the same time fleeting....

Practica guia desde la Colonia hasta el presente siglo de la evolucion musical en Norteamerica. Pasan la etapa de puritanismo y la proscripcion del baile, la influencia del coral religioso, el nacionalismo, el exotismo, la aparicion y aportacion del jazz y la musica negra, la Gebrauchsmusik, los purismos, el mesianismo, el colectivismo y el individualismo.