El mar de los deseos

Este libro, y el disco que lo acompaña, descubren, región por región, el magnífico repertorio de baladas y canciones que han marcado los aires de ópera de Bellini y de Verdi, los cantos de la Semana Santa de Sicilia o Cerdeña, el famoso trallallero de los estibadores genoveses o las experiencias renovadoras de los últimos tiempos.

Diversas investigaciones musicológicas de los autores, circunscritas especialmente al área pirenaica de nuestra comunidad autónoma, han evidenciado la existencia de un importante repertorio de cantos, autóctonos en su mayoría, proporcional a su dispersión y heterogeneidad. El presente libro, que constituye un punto de partida para la catalogación de este significativo patrimonio musical, ha tomado como elemento unificador el texto de las melodías, recopilando aquellas cuyas letras figuran en aragonés o en sus diversas modalidades lingüísticas. Cada entrada individual contiene una...

Twenty-six songs illustrate the growth and diversity of tango canción, from its Argentine roots to its dissemination throughout Europe and into the Middle East and beyond. These songs are represented both in print - with melody lines, chord boxes and lyrics in their original language and in English - and through classic recordings by the original artists on the accompanying CD. Tango Voices is not only the perfect introduction to one of World Music's most expressive and seductive genres, but also a valuable resource for all existing tango lovers.

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...