Estampas Musicales

Compendio de entrevistas, reportajes, crónicas y artículos, a través de los cuales el autor desarrolla una cartografía de la música mexicana e internacional, que recorre el género clásico, el jazz, el rock, el blues, el tango y la música afroantillana.

La America latina y el Caribe han cambiado totalmente el panorama musical del siglo XX. America latina es el crisol donde bulle una de las musicas populares mas ricas del mundo: no solo el tango argentino, nacido en los bajos fondos de Buenos Aires; la samba, autentico simbolo de Brasil; el reggae jamaicano de envolventes ritmos; sino tambien el biguine, el calipso, la bossa nova y la salsa.Sus representantes se llaman Carlos Gardel, Harry Belafonte, Celia Cruz, Bob Marley... Nacida del sincretismo entre ritmos africanos, europeos y amerindios, la musica latinoamericana sigue siendo una...

Year of Wonder introduces readers to one piece of music each day of the year, artfully selected from across genres, time periods, and composers. Burton-Hill offers short introductions to contextualize each piece, and makes the music come alive in modern and playful ways. A dazzling musical journey.

Quiero Tocar El Bajo by Victor M. Barba is a tremendous book for the bass. Written for both acoustic or electric bass, in this book you'll find all you need to learn the basics. the book features 20 progressive studies, basic music theory, and many scales. Every example or song is presented in standard music notation, the name of the notes, TABS, and graphics to help you better understand the music. with rhythms such as Ranchera, Cumbia, Banda, Rock, Norteño, Balada, Grupera and even Salsa, this book is pack with plenty of exercises and bass lines for you to play. Quiero Tocar El Bajo is a...