Novedades

NPR’s launch of the multi-platform series Turning the Tables in 2017, suddenly pushed more women onto “Best of” lists and into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. With How Women Made Music, acclaimed critic and TtT co-founder Ann Powers and contributor Alison Fensterstock draw from every Turning the Tables season and the full 50-years of NPR archives, to bring a vibrant, entertaining history of women in folk, rock, rap, hip hop, salsa, bubblegum pop, and much more.

El conocimiento del arte y su técnica es tan importante como la historia que lo sustenta. Los elementos, las corrientes, los artistas y sus influencias son todos partícipes para construir con el paso de los años el universo de una disciplina, y la música clásica no es la excepción. En este libro, Héctor Vasconcelos parte de los aspectos técnicos más básicos como los elementos de la música, su notación y clasificación para explicar los cambios que han tenido las formas de la música instrumental y vocal con el paso del tiempo.

For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer, has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stalin's death in 1953 when thousands of Soviet prisoners were released, Lotoro pieces together the human stories of survivors whose only salvation was their love of music.