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On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...

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...

Con esta publicación, dedicada al charango, se ofrece a la musicología continental una obra llena de peculiaridades conceptuales. Un libro y una idea llevados a cabo por el Julio Mendívil, etnomusicologo peruano residente en Austria, quien, además de notable intelectual, especialista en música andina y profesor universitario, es él mismo interprete del charango. El libro contiene artículos de 19 autores, provenientes de países diversos, desde grandes pioneros de la musicología continental como el argentino Carlos Vega y el narrador y antropólogo peruano Jose María Arguedas, figura...

Este libro se ha transformado, con el paso el tiempo, en un clásico de la bibliografía tanguera. De sus páginas surgen, con la sintética vividez de los pantallazos cinematográficos, las biografías de sesenta y cinco tangos memorables. Esta nueva edición, corregida y anotada por Pedro Ochoa, añade, además, valiosas ilustraciones y fotografías de la época.