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Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...

Tras el suicidio de Ian Curtis en 1980, los componentes de Joy Division se reagruparon para formar New Order, bajo el auspicio de su mánager, el carismático Rob Gretton. Durante las giras norteamericanas que cimentarían el éxito del grupo en EE.UU., descubrieron fascinados la emergente escena de clubs neoyorquina, con los míticos Danceteria y Paradise Garage a la cabeza. El excéntrico Tony Wilson, máximo responsable de Factory, el sello discográfico de Manchester que labró su éxito gracias, sobre todo, a Joy Division y New Order, decidió emprender con Gretton, arrastrando, de paso, ...

A fundamental guide to understanding rap in all its complexities by one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and his lucid college friend. This provocative and entertaining essay collection attempts to scrutinize the genre through the lens of sociology, economics, philosophy, and law by means of a back-and-forth exchange between the authors. A fundamental guide to understanding rap in all its complexities by one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and his lucid college friend. This provocative and entertaining essay collection attempts to scrutinize the genre through...

El teatro vivió su renovación a partir de 1960. Tal como ya había pasado con las artes plásticas, la escena rompió con el realismo y las representaciones tradicionales. Aquí empieza el teatro contemporáneo. Sin la música pop y rock, la segunda mitad del siglo XX habría sido probablemente diferente. Este libro traza la evolución de esta música popular y analiza la gran influencia que ha tenido.