El jazz en México

¿A qué suena la música que hoy está haciendo historia? El pianista islandés Ólafur Arnalds dijo una vez que en vez de elevar un puente sobre la música clásica y la popular, la verdadera misión era secar las aguas por debajo, y en cierta forma esa es la actitud que define el nuevo sonido en nuestro tiempo. Como en cualquier otra disciplina creativa, es un lugar común admitir que nada ha sucedido en la música desde los años setenta, y no es verdad. Una invasión silenciosa lo demuestra, y Javier Blánquez toma el testigo del reputado Alex Ross para explorar un terreno que en El...

William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented—until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be traced to Burroughs. A heroin addict and a gay man, Burroughs rose to notoriety outside the conventional literary world; his masterpiece, Naked Lunch, was banned on the grounds of obscenity, but its nonlinear structure...

Presents the lyrics of one hundred of the Mexican singer-songwriter's songs in commemoration of his one hundredth birthday.

Since it was first published in 1975, Mystery Train has cemented itself in the canon of great rock literature, offering one of the most astute, fascinating visions of the genre. Greil Marcus traces the emotional landscape and zeitgeist of an entire continent through the lens of the music of six of the most influential bands and musicians: from the pioneering Harmonica Frank to the tortured universe of blues singer Robert Johnson; from The Band and their dream to create a community grounded in rootlessness to the chaotic friction of Sly and the Family Stone; and from Randy Newman’s struggle...