Ñico Saquito: El Rey de la guaracha

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

El Manual Oxford de Filosofía en educación musical, editado en inglés por los prestigiosos Wayne D. Bowman y Ana Lucía Frega, del cual esta obra presenta un compendio en español, intenta mostrar cómo una Filosofía en la educación musical parte desde las prácticas mismas y permite tomar conciencia de las ideas estéticas, culturales, antropológicas, éticas y políticas que allí operan consciente o inconscientemente. Este recorrido propone “poner en cuestión” las prácticas, los objetivos de enseñanza y las convicciones en la enseñanza musical. A través de la reflexión de...

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...

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...