Una música para cada día

Hazme sonreír: música para vivir es una recopilación de 24 artículos de El Mundano, el blog de Adrián Vogel. Punto de Vista los recupera y los entrega en formato digital... 24 canciones que hacen historia. Una canción puede vender muchos ejemplares, ser un hit, pasar de moda... pero la criba de la autora no engaña: hay pepitas de oro entre tanta música. Estas 24 canciones seguirán para siempre en la memoria y en el corazón de muchos. El siglo XX vio nacer el rock and roll y, sobre todo, la industria de la música pop. Podemos decir que en 1955, Bill Haley & the Comets inauguraban la ...

Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as...

In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history--encyclopedia entries, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, classic success stories--Marcus brings to the forefront 10 essential songs that, for their influence and how they have resonated throughout the decades, have surpassed a milestone of pop music. This book includes brief biographies of the songs' writers and performers and captures the essence of each pop entry--everlasting yet at the same time fleeting....

"This is a short but dense novel that epitomizes postmodern writing in contemporary Venezuelan literature. Castañeda uses Bocaccio's and Cervantes' views on the novel to justify the mixing of many rhetoric conventions, enhancing the artificiality of literature in a text that parodies an interpretive essay but deviates onto different paths, some not quite successful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.