Un Ano Para Maravillarse

While living in Mexico, Janet taught piano and music education at the Mexican Baptist Seminary from 1984 until 2000. She soon found that her Mexican students did not relate to the folk tunes found in translated piano methods. Janet wrote this new method which uses many children's and folk melodies original to the Mexican culture. Even though several of the melodies in the first level book are not currently used or well-known, these songs provide a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in any Spanish language culture. In order to capture the flow of the music more completely,...

The “Bolero” has been part of the sentimental education, not only to inhabitants of Cuba (where the music evolved), or Mexicans (where it became a national art form), but to countless persons around the world, in a study that features “Bésame mucho” and hundreds of additional songs.

Exploración de algunas de las manifestaciones de la actual escena musical contemporánea como un poderoso instrumento en la formación de valores sociales e ideológicos.

This is the exciting history of a musical genre that was born in Jamaica in the fifties and quickly captivated the world. Born under a specific social, political, and religious context, reggae was developed from the influence of musical styles such as calypso and blues. This book traces the origins of the genre and the characteristics of its unique culture. Esta es la apasionante historia de un género musical que nació en Jamaica en la década de los años cincuenta del pasado siglo y que en pocos años trasladó todo su poder y toda su fuerza al resto del mundo. Nacido al amparo de un...