Cuadernos de música - Gilberto Gil

This book approaches bongo playing in a very user-friendly way. It is a must for all students who wish to learn the basic styles, patterns, and techniques from world-renowned artist/teacher Richie Gajate-Garcia. This package contains two CDs with Richie performing all the exercises and includes play-along tracks to practice with. Styles include Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, pop/rock, funk, and R&B, along with a section on school jazz band use. This is a complete study of the bongo drum and should be fun for all who use it. Also includes an in-depth study of all basic hand percussion...

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...

Presents the lyrics of one hundred of the Mexican singer-songwriter's songs in commemoration of his one hundredth birthday.

A la edad de ocho aos, David Kingston abandona su natal Inglaterra despus de que sus padres huyeran amenazados por oscuros personajes del parlamento britnico, tras protagonizar una protesta hecha en su contra. A su llegada a la Argentina, la madre de David desparece en manos del rgimen militar que se viva en el pas sudamericano en aquella poca, razn por la cual salen del pas para radicarse en la ciudad de Nueva York. Durante los aos posteriores a su adolescencia, David encuentra solucin a todos sus problemas en una actividad que le es completamente desagradable: cantar. Sin pretenderlo, la...