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Latin Beat : Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music From Bossa Nova To Salsa and Beyond (03 Edition) by Ed Morales Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-354) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Remembering Selena Recordando a Selena by Himilce Novas Publisher Comments Like the flower she sang about in Coma La Flor Selena blossomed. And then withered too soon...But her music and her beauty live forever in our hearts...... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brazilian Popular Music Caetano Veloso by Lorraine Leu Book News Annotation Leu (Portuguese and Brazilian studies, U. of Bristol, UK) examines the connection between popular music and Brazilian culture and identity by describing the contributions and influence of Caetano Veloso on M... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover
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Rites of Rhythm: The Music of Cuba by Jory Farr Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-260) and discography (p. 235-246).... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Handbook of Latin American Music, Second Edition by Dale A. (edt) Olsen Publisher Comments The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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New York City Latin Big Band: From the Catalogs of West Side Latino, Seeco, and Tropical by Wax Poetics Publisher Comments In the 1950s and 60s, the popular appeal of the Latin big band sound turned its biggest stars into representatives of Latino culture worldwide. New York City was both a home base for the most reputed groups and a proving ground for young talent. New York... (read more) Available January 2010 Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Azucar! the Celia Cruz Biography by Eduardo Marceles Publisher Comments Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, successful singer, political exile and humanitarian. This fascinating biography begins with her recent funeral in New York, traveling back to her modest origins in Havana, and how fate intervened to bring her seductive... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria with CD (Audio) by Katherine Hagedorn Synopsis In Divine Utterances, Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santeria and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Book W/Audio Cd
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Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World by Ruy Castro Publisher Comments Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as "The Girl from Ipanema" (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), "The Waters of March," and "Desafinado" are known around the world. "Bossa Nova"--a number-one... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reggaeton (Refiguring American Music) by Raquel (edt) Rivera Publisher Comments A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars--including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen--garner... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cancun Cha-Cha-Cha by Joyce Grill Synopsis Bring out the maracas and get ready for some South-of-the-Border rhythmical FUN! Each player takes a turn with the cha-cha-cha rhythm in this lively and animated ensemble for three performers at one piano.... (read more) Your price: $3.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mariachi [With CD (Audio)] by Patricia Greathouse Publisher Comments MARIACHI MARIACHI IS MORE THAN THE MUSIC of trumpets and violins: it is the makings of a celebration, a party, a wedding, a festival, or a concert. The author's narrative captures the world of mariachi and its development through her interviews with many... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968 (Refiguring American Music) by Anthony Macias Synopsis ""Mexican American Mojo" is a timely and engaging work that thoroughly demonstrates the development of popular Mexican American culture in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. Anthony Macias has written an illuminating and remarkable study that belongs in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's Legendary All-Girl Dance Band by Alicia Castro Publisher Comments The 1930s saw Havana undergoing a seismic cultural renaissance. At night in the aires libres (open air cafes), tourists and foreign investors rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway as they sipped cocktails, cavorted with Cuban beauties, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica (Music in American Life) by John H Mcdowell Publisher Comments John H. McDowell provides an in-depth study of the Mexican ballad form known as the corrido, a body of poetry that takes violence as its subject. Through interviews with corrido composers and performers, both male and female, and a generous sampling of... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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City of Musical Memory : Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia (02 Edition) by Lise A. Waxer Publisher Comments Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rock En Espanol by Ernesto Lechner Publisher Comments The most exciting music to come out of Latin America in the last 15 years belongs to the genre known as rock en español—the fusion of Anglo alt-rock with Latin folklore that is examined in this volume. What began as a cult movement in the late... (read more) Your price: $33.75 New - Prebind
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The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City by Cesar Rondon Publisher Comments Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music—and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Rhythms of Resistance by Peter Fryer Publisher Comments The first definitive history of the full range of African contributions to Brazilian music.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific (06 Edition) by Heidi Feldman Publisher Comments In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate--and to some extent... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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