Una invasión silenciosa

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...

"El clima de los 80 fue siempre tenso, no tanto por sed de destrucción como por impaciencia. Había que abandonar lo que nos sostenía; los padres, los primeros amigos, el colegio, la disciplina... En el medio la merca, el ácido o la marihuana se encargaban de disparar nuevos horizontes. Solamente vos podías intuir qué camino tomar y dónde terminar con tu vida. Luca luchaba por quitarse un peso de encima, como quien crea para sí una montura para cruzar todas las montañas del arte pero de pronto le duele y la montura ya no sirve". ¿Es este un nuevo libro sobre la leyenda de Luca Prodan ...

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...

La música del Caribe contiene una historia de conquista, esclavitud, defensa de identidades y luchas libertarias. Nos encontramos “ante un lenguaje compartido, o ante los restos de un género común dispersado, estallando en un inmenso continente cultural cuya coherencia suele pasar muchas veces desapercibida”. Por citar algunos ejemplos: punto guajiro cubano, galerón del Oriente Venezolano, guajira andaluza, zapateado jarocho, punto canario o la mejorana panameña.