La sonrisa oculta de la música

Rompieron clichés, sí. Mujeres como Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner o Patti Smith tuvieron que saltar muchos obstáculos a la hora de subirse a un escenario y poner música y actitud al rock. Pero también fue su trabajo y su talento lo que les llevó a hacerse un hueco en la historia de este género musical y en la memoria colectiva de los aficionados. Féminas incendiarias, de potentes personalidades, que tomaron al asalto el bastión del rock para demostrar que las guitarras eléctricas, las baterías, los tatuajes y el cuero no sólo eran cosa de hombres. Este libro recoge medio...

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...

Professor Snow's auspicious debut in musicology came in 1958 as the author of the chapter on Old Roman chant in Willi Apel's Gregorian Chant. He completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1968, and his major faculty appointments have been at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois, and University of Texas. His publications range from the medieval era to the baroque, most of them dealing with sacred music in Spain, Portugal, the Hispanic New World, and eastern Europe. Encomium Musicae will present over 40 articles by scholars from seven different countries, most of...

Prólogo 1. La historia de las mujeres 2. Las heroínas de la ópera 3. Tres mujeres de carácter: Carmen, Electra y Ariane 4. La ópera, los compositores y la mujer Epílogo Bibliografía