The Beatles: Arte y vanguardia en la sociedad de masas

You can hum it, but can you write it down? When most people think of a composer, they picture a bewigged genius like Mozart or Beethoven frenetically directing mighty orchestras in the ornate palaces of Vienna. While that may have been the case once upon a time, modern composers make themselves heard far beyond the classical conservatoire and concert hall. These days, soundtracks are in high demand in industries such as TV, film, advertising, and even gaming to help create immersive and exciting experiences. Whatever your musical ambitions—composing a dark requiem in a beautiful Viennese...

El mar de los deseos. El Caribe afroandaluz, historia y contrapunto constituye un estudio histórico sobre la formas musicales originadas en el Caribe. Analiza las condiciones históricas, así como los diferentes mestizajes que dieron origen a lo que el autor denomina un “cancionero” de la época colonial, que incluye culturas como la africana, española e iberoamericana.

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...

En 2013 se cumplieron 230 años de la muerte del compositor español Antonio Soler, teniendo lugar un festival dedicado a su música y para el que se me pidió la edición de su biografía. Este acometido me interesó muchísimo, aunque no cabe duda de que era un atrevimiento bastante costoso. Si bien el legado musical de este músico ha sido inmenso y el interés de intérpretes y musicólogos por su obra igualmente, se carecía de una biografía razonada sobre él, sobre todo por falta de documentos que pudieran completarnos el día a día de este personaje. Gracias a la extracción de...