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  • The Latin Bass Book

    by SHER Music, Chuck Sher, Oscar Stagnaro ...
    The only comprehensive book ever published on how to play bass in authentic Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and various South American styles. Over 250 pages of exact transcriptions of every note Oscar plays on the 3 accompanying CDs. Endorsed by Down Beat magazine, Latin Beat magazine, Benny Rietveld, etc. The audio portion of this book is available for free download at http://www.shermusic.com ... Read more

    PHP867.29

  • Argentine Queer Tango

    Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires

    by Mercedes Liska ...
    Translated by Peggy Westwell, Pablo Vila ...
    Series series Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
    Argentine Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires investigates changes in tango dancing in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first century and its relationship to contemporary social and cultural transformations. Mercedes Liska focuses on one of the proposed alternatives to conventional tango, queer tango, which proposes to rethink one of the alleged icons of a ... Read more

    PHP2,316.19

  • Songs of Latin America

    Voice and Piano with Guitar Chords

    by Jerry Silverman ...
    A vibrant song collection featuring music from 19 Latin American countries, including Ecuador, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, and more. All lyrics are in Spanish and English. The music is arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords.Una colorida colección de canciones que contiene música de 19 países latinoamericanos, incluidos ... Read more

    PHP1,163.25

  • Making It Heard

    A History of Brazilian Sound Art

    Edited by Dr Rui Chaves, Prof Fernando Iazzetta ...
    From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound. This is the backdrop for Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, a volume that offers an overview of local artists working with performance, experimental vinyl production, sound installation, sculpture, mail art, field recording, and ... Read more

    PHP2,158.29

  • Geographies of Cubanidad

    Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba

    by Rebecca M. Bodenheimer ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting a gap between the claim of racial harmony and the realities of inequality faced by Afro-Cubans since ... Read more

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  • Music Scenes and Migrations

    Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic

    Edited by David Treece ...
    ‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe. Moving beyond now-contested models for conceptualizing international musical relations and hierarchies of powers and influence, such as global/local or centre/periphery, the volume ... Read more

    PHP1,491.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Can Teach Yourself Flamenco Guitar

    by Luigi Marraccini ...
    Series series You Can Teach Yourself
    This is an easy to understand, step-by-step method which brings the colorful and exciting world of flamenco guitar within the reach of any guitarist. Contents include: History, The Capo, Tablature, How to Play Flamenco Guitar, Rasgueado, Triplets, Golpe, Picado, Ligato, Arpeggio, Tremolo, Sevillanas I,II,III, and IV, Fandangos de Huelva, Malaguena, Verdiales, Rumba, Soleares, Bulerias, Farruca, ... Read more

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  • Improvising Sabor

    Cuban Dance Music in New York

    by Sue Miller ...
    Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute ... Read more

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  • Silvestre Revueltas

    Sounds of a Political Passion

    by Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus ...
    Series series CURRENTS IN LATIN AMER AND IBERIAN MUSIC
    Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been portrayed as a nationalist artist both at home and beyond Mexico's borders. However, the musicking of a presumed "Mexicanness" was far from Revueltas' mind. In Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion, author Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus shows how Revueltas, strongly inspired by the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, sought ways to sound ... Read more

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  • Mandolin Songbook - Tango, Salsa & More

    + Sounds online

    by Reynhard Boegl ...
    Songbook with 20 Tangos, Salsas and songs from related genres, notated for the Mandolin.Some of the songs are polyphonic (for one player) and notated in tablature and classical notation.The sounds of the songs are available online in a sound player with adjustable playback speed.Videos explain how to read music, long songs are also available as PDF downloads - no more scrolling... ... Read more

    PHP511.24 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism

    by Laurie M. Johnson ...
    This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides's. ... Read more

    PHP1,375.59

  • Café Tacvba's Re

    by Carmelo Esterrich ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re.Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad musical genres with the pulse, the attitude, and the energy of punk and rock. Mambo and ska, samba and salsa, punk and industrial, disco and Mexican banda, are but a few of the genres in this musical ... Read more

    PHP401.37

  • The Sweet Penance of Music

    Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile

    by Alejandro Vera ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider colonial system. Author Alejandro Vera, recent winner of the International Casa de las Américas ... Read more

    PHP5,839.99

  • Musique espagnole

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Partez à la découverte de la musique espagnole avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Selon que l'on considère la traduction musicale des caractères communs à l'ensemble des peuples ibériques ou l'évolution d'une tradition savante, on pourra parler de musique espagnole ou de musique d'Espagne. La première, présente dans les folklores de la Péninsule depuis les origines de la nat...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    PHP546.77

  • Las mudanzas del cante en tiempo de silverio

    by Guillermo Castro Buendía ...
    La figura artística de Silverio Franconetti fue determinante en la configuración de los primeros estilos de cante flamenco y en su posterior desarrollo. Sabemos de su viaje a América, de sus primeros recitales, de su famoso café cantante y de los profesionales que le conocieron y que fueron sus discípulos, quienes le coronaron como Rey de los cantaores. Sin embargo, poco se ha dicho sobre las ... Read more

    PHP1,407.22 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guitarra Solista - 8 Concert Flamenco Compositions in Music Notation

    for Classical Performers

    by Juan Martin ...
    These Juan Martín compositions are for flamenco, classical and any type of guitar players at intermediate and more advanced stages who already have experience of the instrument and techniques like arpeggios, tremolo and correct left-hand fingering, but wish to extend their knowledge of thumb techniques like alzapua, the many forms of rasgueo and flamenco rhythms such as rumba, vituosic guajiras ... Read more

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  • Fusion Drum Styles

    by James Morton ...
    Covers a wealth of coordination studies in a wide variety of styles, including funk, reggae, Latin, fusion, and a number of odd-meter drum styles. The author enumerates the various aspects of drumming which are critical to solid musicianship, shows how these aspects relate to each other and to playing, and demonstrates how, by evaluating our capabilities, we can strive toward a musical balance in ... Read more

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  • Laurindo Almeida - Brazilian Reflections

    Music for Guitar and Voice

    by Laurindo Almeida ...
    A collection of rich harmonic and contrapuntal vocal/ guitar arrangements by the renowned guitarist and composer, Laurindo Almeida. Born in Sao Paulo Brazil in 1917 and immigrating to the U.S. in 1947, it was Almeida who brought the bossa nova style to the United States long before it was so named. With Brazilian Reflections, the always elegant and tasteful Almeida brings his skills as a supreme ... Read more

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  • The Flamenco/Classical Guitar Tradition

    A Technical Guitar Method and Introduction to Music

    by Juan Serrano ...
    This beginning guitar method was written for aspiring classical and flamenco guitarists who want to improve their technical and sightreading skills. Music from the Spanish tradition—such as Romanza, Pica-Pica, El Vito, Café de Chinitas, Perfidia, and La Virgen de la Macarena—plus flamenco studies by Juan Serrano provide a technical and musical foundation that improves facility in playing scales ... Read more

    PHP1,447.95

  • Habaneras, Maxixes & Tangos

    The Syncopated Piano Music of Latin America

    by Bill Matthiesen ...
    This collection showcases the syncopated piano music of Latin American during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It features Latin rhythms, which are really African rhythms brought to the Americas by slaves and applied to the music of the European colonists. These rhythms are varied and complex and so is their history. They've had a widespread and profound influence on the evolution of ... Read more

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  • El Carbonerito

    by Ernesto Cordero ...
    This solo piece for classic guitar is a musical theme with five variations based on an ancient nursery melody very popular in Spain and Spanish America. This musical theme is based on an ancient Spanish romance, whose oldest form appears in a gothic parchment dating from the 15th century. The most recent or modern version of this romance is from the last third of the 19th century. The version ... Read more

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  • Brazilian Mandolin

    by Flavio Henrique Medeiros, Carlos Almada ...
    The mandolin was brought to Brazil by Portuguese colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries, and eventually worked its way into traditional Brazilian music. The principal aim of this book is to present an overview of the several faces of the mandolin in Brazil. In this book's eighteen progressively arranged character studies, the mandolin student will find, besides a great number of aspects of the ... Read more

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  • Essential Flamenco Guitar: Volume 1

    by Juan Martin ...
    This book and accompanying video provide a thorough introduction to flamenco guitar. What are the essential elements and techniques of flamenco guitar playing? How does one capture the real essence of authentic flamenco guitar? These are questions that Juan Martin, celebrated virtuoso flamenco guitarist and teacher, addresses in this first book of a projected three-volume series. The method is ... Read more

    PHP2,027.36

  • Criança de Domingo

    Uma biografia musical de Chico Science

    by José Teles ...
    A BIOGRAFIA DE UM DOS ARTISTAS MAIS IMPORTANTES DA MÚSICA BRASILEIRA Chico Science, ou Francisco de Assis França, nasceu e morreu em um dia de domingo. Veio ao mundo em 13 de março de 1966,no Hospital Evangélico, no bairro da Torre, em Recife. Atrás do hospital está o rio Capibaribe, chamado de "o cão sem plumas" pelo poeta João Cabral de Melo Neto, onde se chega à outra margem mais rápido por ... Read more

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