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Decoding "Despacito"

Leila Cobo
Decoding Despacito Book PDF

Author : Leila Cobo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780593081341

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Decoding "Despacito" by Leila Cobo Pdf

A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest Latin hits of the past fifty years. From the salsa born and bred in the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaetón and bilingual chart-toppers, this rich oral history is a veritable treasure trove of never-before heard anecdotes and insight from a who's who of Latin music artists, executives, observers, and players. Their stories, told in their own words, take you inside the hits, to the inner sanctum of the creative minds behind the tracks that have defined eras and become hallmarks of history. FEATURING THE STORIES BEHIND SONGS BY: José Feliciano • Los Tigres Del Norte • Julio Iglesias • Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine • Willie Colón • Juan Luis Guerra • Selena • Los Del Río • Carlos Vives • Elvis Crespo • Ricky Martin • Santana • Shakira • Daddy Yankee • Marc Anthony • Enrique Iglesias with Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona • Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee • J Balvin with Willy William • Rosalía

Reggaeton

Raquel Z. Rivera,Wayne Marshall,Deborah Pacini Hernandez
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Author : Raquel Z. Rivera,Wayne Marshall,Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822392323

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Reggaeton by Raquel Z. Rivera,Wayne Marshall,Deborah Pacini Hernandez Pdf

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 international attention, while aspiring performers use digital technologies to create and circulate their own tracks. Reggaeton brings together critical assessments of this wildly popular genre. Journalists, scholars, and artists delve into reggaeton’s local roots and its transnational dissemination; they parse the genre’s aesthetics, particularly in relation to those of hip-hop; and they explore the debates about race, nation, gender, and sexuality generated by the music and its associated cultural practices, from dance to fashion. The collection opens with an in-depth exploration of the social and sonic currents that coalesced into reggaeton in Puerto Rico during the 1990s. Contributors consider reggaeton in relation to that island, Panama, Jamaica, and New York; Cuban society, Miami’s hip-hop scene, and Dominican identity; and other genres including reggae en español, underground, and dancehall reggae. The reggaeton artist Tego Calderón provides a powerful indictment of racism in Latin America, while the hip-hop artist Welmo Romero Joseph discusses the development of reggaeton in Puerto Rico and his refusal to embrace the upstart genre. The collection features interviews with the DJ/rapper El General and the reggae performer Renato, as well as a translation of “Chamaco’s Corner,” the poem that served as the introduction to Daddy Yankee’s debut album. Among the volume’s striking images are photographs from Miguel Luciano’s series Pure Plantainum, a meditation on identity politics in the bling-bling era, and photos taken by the reggaeton videographer Kacho López during the making of the documentary Bling’d: Blood, Diamonds, and Hip-Hop. Contributors. Geoff Baker, Tego Calderón, Carolina Caycedo, Jose Davila, Jan Fairley, Juan Flores, Gallego (José Raúl González), Félix Jiménez, Kacho López, Miguel Luciano, Wayne Marshall, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Alfredo Nieves Moreno, Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Raquel Z. Rivera, Welmo Romero Joseph, Christoph Twickel, Alexandra T. Vazquez

Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio

Betto Arcos
Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio Book PDF

Author : Betto Arcos
Publisher : Adalberto Arcos Landa
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 057885256X

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Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio by Betto Arcos Pdf

A collection of 150 stories about music from all over Latin America, including Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, as well as Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The stories were originally broadcast on public radio programs on NPR, PRX's The World, BCC, KPCC and Latino USA. The book contains 12 chapters, each following a specific narrative: music and identity; education, community building, immigration, women's empowerment, adversity, social unrest and violence, instruments, producers, place and nation; the music of Brazil, Cuba music and the diaspora. The book's main focus is Latin American music from across the continent, with an emphasis on the music of Latinos and other ethnic groups in Los Angeles. The book also tells a personal story: the author's constant, tireless search for stories that help explain how complex and diverse humans are and how we share something so special that brings us together: music. This edition includes illustrations by Alec Dempster.

The World of Bob Dylan

Sean Latham
The World of Bob Dylan Book PDF

Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108499514

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The World of Bob Dylan by Sean Latham Pdf

This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's most influential artists.

A Dark and Hollow Star

Ashley Shuttleworth
A Dark and Hollow Star Book PDF

Author : Ashley Shuttleworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534453685

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A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth Pdf

"A queer cast of characters--a half-fae teenager, a temperamental ex-Fury, a fae prince, and his brooding guardian--must track down a serial killer whose disturbing murders are threatening to expose the hidden faerie courts to the human world"--Provided by publisher.

Clarity & Connection

Yung Pueblo
Clarity Connection Book PDF

Author : Yung Pueblo
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524869861

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Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. To be read on its own or as a complement to Inward, Yung Pueblo’s second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation, building self-awareness, and deepening their connection with others.

Dirty Gold

Jay Weaver,Nicholas Nehamas,Jim Wyss,Kyra Gurney
Dirty Gold Book PDF

Author : Jay Weaver,Nicholas Nehamas,Jim Wyss,Kyra Gurney
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781529345322

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Dirty Gold by Jay Weaver,Nicholas Nehamas,Jim Wyss,Kyra Gurney Pdf

An astonishing read -- full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland Crackles along ... they deserve credit for exposing the dark underbelly of the jewellery industry and giving us another glimpse into the real cost of the global obsession with gold - Spectator __________ All that glitters is not gold. Gold is the new cocaine - and it's just as lucrative, dangerous, and destructive. __________ Dirty Gold is a searing expose on the booming gold mining industry and destruction on the land and people of Latin America. It looks closely at a small US firm in Miami that helped transform the city into the nation's No.1 importer of gold into the United States. The book follows the meteoric rise and fall of a group of drug traders known as 'the three amigos' who laundered narco money through gold illegally brought into the US and raked in millions before they were caught. Whilst they were making their millions, the humanitarian situation in Colombia, Peru, and many other countries deteriorated dramatically.

The General Zapped an Angel

Howard Fast
The General Zapped an Angel Book PDF

Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453235386

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The General Zapped an Angel by Howard Fast Pdf

DIV“The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I have done.” —Howard Fast/div DIVNearly forty years after the publication of his first story, “The Wrath of Purple,” in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day’s Wall Street Journal, and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotion. Fast, one of the bestselling authors of the twentieth century, skewers war hawks, oil speculators, and profit-at-all-costs capitalism, issues that are still relevant today./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div

Seven Demons

Aidan Truhen
Seven Demons Book PDF

Author : Aidan Truhen
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593311622

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Seven Demons by Aidan Truhen Pdf

Jack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century. Meet Jack Price and the Seven Demons: Doc, the evil mad scientist presently using Jack for sex; Rex, an explosives expert who doesn’t ask too many questions so long as something goes boom; Volodya, a Ukrainian assassin who may or may not be a cannibal; Charlie, a comic book artist with computer skills and an anarchist bent; Lucille, whose specialty is razor-edged hugs; and Jack’s predecessor, Fred, who doesn’t contribute a whole lot owing to being a severed head on a stick. Finally there’s Jack himself, former coffee magnate turned cocaine dealer turned First Demon, but basically just a guy trying to get along. Jack has a problem. The Seven Demons don’t have a contract, and there’s nothing more volatile than a gang of deadly killers with nothing to do. Luckily, a shadowy Eurotrash businessman wants them to pull off the heist of a lifetime, breaking into a bank that makes Fort Knox look like the corner candy store. Jack thinks this will be a nice little diversion for his crew . . . until a rosy-cheeked, lederhosen-wearing little psychopath named Evil Hansel stabs him with an oyster knife, and the whole situation goes completely to hell. Someone isn’t playing straight, and in a game of double crosses, Jack Price will do anything—literally, anything—to come out on top

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

Karen Tongson
Why Karen Carpenter Matters Book PDF

Author : Karen Tongson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477318867

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Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson Pdf

In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.

Violeta [English Edition]

Isabel Allende
Violeta English Edition Book PDF

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593496206

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Violeta [English Edition] by Isabel Allende Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. “An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women’s rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and ultimately not one, but two pandemics. Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.

Ambiance, Tourism and the City

Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros,Daniel Paiva,Daniel Malet Calvo
Ambiance Tourism and the City Book PDF

Author : Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros,Daniel Paiva,Daniel Malet Calvo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000872323

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Ambiance, Tourism and the City by Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros,Daniel Paiva,Daniel Malet Calvo Pdf

Ambiance, Tourism and the City considers how tourism and urban development affect the lived ambiances of contemporary cities around the world. As most of the existing literature on sensory atmospheres says little about the intersection between tourism and atmospheric production, this book affirms the centrality of the notion of ambiance as a mode of inquiry into the making and remaking of urban places for tourist consumption. The book takes the reader into the sensory worlds of a traditional Italian marketplace, a jungle park in Kuala Lumpur, a slum in the Colombian city of Medellín, or the "sun and sand" tourism destinations in Southern Spain, among other case studies. It offers new insights into the impact of tourism on the urban environment from multidisciplinary perspectives and a wide range of geographical regions across Europe, North America, Asia, and South America. Through these contemporary case studies, the book further deepens our understanding of the ways in which "ambiances" and "atmospheres" pervade the physical regeneration and sensory transformation of contemporary tourist destinations. Conversely, this book offers insights on the effects of tourism on everyday urban experience. By bringing together a diverse group of scholars and case studies to present a global perspective on the atmospheric production of the tourist city, this book is to serve as a valuable reference tool for researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in urban ambiances, tourism, cultural geography, and urban planning.

The Second Time We Met

Leila Cobo
The Second Time We Met Book PDF

Author : Leila Cobo
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455506088

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The Second Time We Met by Leila Cobo Pdf

Adored and nurtured by his adoptive parents in California, Asher Stone has moved effortlessly through a nearly perfect life. He is on the verge of a professional soccer career-when a car accident throws his future into doubt. Suddenly, Asher begins to wonder about his past, and about the girl who gave him up for adoption in Colombia two decades ago. And so begins his search for a woman named Rita Ortiz. From the teeming streets of Bogata to a tiny orphanage tucked into a hillside, Asher untangles the mystery of Rita's identity, her abrupt disappearance from her home, and the winding journey that followed. But as Asher comes closer to finding Rita, his own parents are faced with fears and doubts. And Rita must soon make her own momentous choice: stay hidden in her hard-earned new life, or meet the secret son who will bring painful memories-or the promise of a new beginning . . .

Peinate

Raquel I. Penzo
Peinate Book PDF

Author : Raquel I. Penzo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Dominican fiction
ISBN : 1548828025

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Peinate by Raquel I. Penzo Pdf

We can't imagine a bigger conflict in a Latinx household than that between a mother and a daughter, over hair! This anthology includes stories, poems and essays about the fights, insecurities, identity issues, and acceptance in relation to our hair, and how it shapes those vital familial bonds. Featuring Sarah Serrano; Adeline Yllanes; Theresa Varela; Tania Lambert; Elaine Nadal; Gaudys Laxury; Lupe Ruiz-Flores; Tina Marie Dominguez; Connie Pertuz-Meza; Kayla Hicks; Maria Elena Montero; Melinda Zepeda; Mayrenes Figuereo; Sydney Valerio; Carmen Inguanzo; Mercy Tullis-Bukhari; Angela Abreu; Margarita Dager-Uscocovich; Natalie N. Caro; Lauren Scharhag; Paula Ramirez; and Raquel I. Penzo.

YouTube and Music

Holly Rogers,Joana Freitas,João Francisco Porfírio
YouTube and Music Book PDF

Author : Holly Rogers,Joana Freitas,João Francisco Porfírio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501387289

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YouTube and Music by Holly Rogers,Joana Freitas,João Francisco Porfírio Pdf

YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube's potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive composition, refresh music pedagogy, perform fandom, influence musical tourism and soundtrack our everyday lives. Speaking from a variety of perspectives, musicologists, film scholars, philosophers, new media theorists, cultural geographers and psychologists use case studies to situate YouTube as a vital component of contemporary musical culture. This book works together with its companion text Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.