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  • From Tejano to Tango

    Essays on Latin American Popular Music

    Edited by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Spanish Piano Music and Folklore from the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

    Crossing Paths

    by Ana Benavides ...
    Translated by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music—songs and dances—from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this period, including Spanish, and Ana Benavides uses this as a vehicle for examining a wide variety of vernacular songs and dances, offering a wealth of musical, historical, and ethnographic insight. First ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Sudden Strangers

    The Story of a Gay Son and His Father

    "This is a story about Walter Fricke and Aaron Fricke, father and son, heterosexual and gay (respectively on all counts). . . ."It has taken six years to complete this book. During that time, there were periods when it was worked on steadily and times when the material was abandoned as hopeless. The book changed as our father/son relationship changed, and each transformation of the book reflected ... Read more

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  • Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto

    Music, Tradition, and Culture at the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Series series Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
    Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of the norteño and tejano conjunto. This group represents a marginalized local identity that was transformed primarily into an identity of the northeast. It then gave way to the whole of northern México and the American Southwest, and was later assimilated internationally as a mainstream genre. This book provides ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Art of Memory Forensics

    Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory

    Memory forensics provides cutting edge technology to help investigate digital attacksMemory forensics is the art of analyzing computer memory (RAM) to solve digital crimes. As a follow-up to the best seller Malware Analyst's Cookbook, experts in the fields of malware, security, and digital forensics bring you a step-by-step guide to memory forensics—now the most sought after skill in the digital ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Waverly (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An English dreamer swept into the 1745 Jacobite uprising with Bonnie Prince Charlie amid the Highlands rebellion and the tides of Scottish history

    Set during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the novel traces Edward Waverley, a young Hanoverian officer, as he drifts from English complacency into Highland loyalties, torn between prudence and charisma. In the unabridged text, Scott's ironic narrator blends romance with documentary verisimilitude—dialect, antiquarian notes, legal minutiae—so that Tully-Veolan's faded feudalism and Prestonpans' ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Fair Maid of Perth (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A medieval Scottish romance of an armourer's daughter, the glove trade, Highland feuds, royal intrigue, and a fateful Valentine's Day

    Set in late fourteenth-century Perth under the waning reign of Robert III, The Fair Maid of Perth braids civic ritual, clan rivalry, and intimate romance. Scott evokes burgh guild life around Simon Glover and his steadfast daughter Catherine, while the fiery armourer Henry Gow and the conflicted Highland youth Conachar are drawn toward the combat on the North Inch. With archival scruple and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Dawn of the Stars: The Story of the Seven Sisters

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    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Dawn of the Stars offers a unique approach to learning astrophysics by combining rigorous scientific content with an engaging narrative. It introduces listeners to the fundamental principles of stellar evolution, star formation, binary interactions, and gravitational astrophysics through the story of seven stars, the Seven Sisters, who were born in the Pleiades cluster and travel through the Milky ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD

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  • Waverly (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Scottish historical fiction of the Jacobite Rebellion: shifting loyalties, romantic adventure, and poetic landscapes in eighteenth-century Highlands

    Waverly (1814) virtually inaugurates the historical novel, entwining Edward's education with the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Stationed in Scotland, the ingenuous officer drifts from Hanoverian loyalty toward Fergus and Flora Mac-Ivor, counterpoised by Rose Bradwardine and her whimsical Baron. Scott's digressive, ironic narrator layers dialect, humor, and antiquarian detail across settings from Tully ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Enrique Granados

    Poet of the Piano

    Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing, and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    A Research and Information Guide

    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Winner of the 2023 Vincent H. Duckles Award, Music Library AssociationJoaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide catalogues and summarizes the musical works and related literature of Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–99), perhaps the most important Spanish composer of concert music in the second half of the twentieth century. The guide provides annotated bibliographic entries for both primary and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Latin American Art Song

    Sounds of the Imagined Nations

    Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in the art songs of Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Perú, and Colombia. The book addresses the subject of performance practice of ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD