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Oxford Keynotes Série de Livres électroniques

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  • Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo

    par Carol A. Hess ...
    Collections series Oxford Keynotes
    El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos who traditionally form Spain's underclass. When it premiered in Spain in 1915, it proved controversial: some Spanish critics applauded Falla for celebrating the music of a marginalized culture while others attacked his mixing of classical ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    par Robert Farris Thompson ...
    In this generously illustrated book, world-renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, "the fabulous dance of the past hundred years–and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Changing Lives

    Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music

    par Tricia Tunstall ...
    “Reminds us of how arts education can change lives.” —Gary Stager, Huffington PostIn this “vivid story” (Economist), Tricia Tunstall “chronicles the origins and growth of Venezuela’s acclaimed El Sistema national music education program” (Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times) and illustrates its overarching goal: to rescue children from the depredations of poverty through music. What began in Venezuela ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cuban Ballet

    par Octavio Roca ...
    Just as Russian dancers defected from the former Soviet Union in the 1970s, Cuban dancers are now fleeing Castro's regime in droves. Their unique style of ballet is galvanizing the world of dance. This beautifully illustrated book explores the history of Cuban ballet by focusing on the life and career of the indomitable Alicia Alonso. The author also spotlights many of the young dancers who are ... En savoir plus

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  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    par Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Tracing Tangueros

    Argentine Tango Instrumental Music

    par Kacey Link, Kristin Wendland ...
    Collections series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years ago, authors Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland trace tango's historical and stylistic musical ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Modifié par Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Collections series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Enrique Granados

    Poet of the Piano

    par Walter Aaron Clark ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Cubano Be, Cubano Bop

    One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba

    par Leonardo Acosta ...
    Traduit par Daniel Whitesell ...
    Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians and composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban and ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Havana Habit

    par Gustavo Perez Firmat ...
    Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Los Romeros

    Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar

    par Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Collections series Music in American Life
    Spanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family—Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito—have become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States. Walter Aaron Clark's in-depth research and unprecedented ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Modifié par Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD