William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.

This is a book of stories. What all of them have in common is that all are about music. Some of them are from well known musicians and key moments of their lifes and other of people who live loving music, as simple as that.

Historia de la mítica revista Pelo, que marcó a una generación y fue un referente indiscutible del rock nacional. Datos curiosos, personajes y testimonios sobre una publicación que fue sinónimo de resistencia y libertad. En febrero de 1970, en un sótano nacía la revista Pelo. Su creador y editor, Daniel Ripoll, supo ver el espíritu de la época y con un grupo de amigos periodistas y diseñadores impulsó un medio emblemático que, como bien llama Juan Manuel Cibeira, autor de este libro, fue "el banco de la memoria cultural de una generación". Durante las siguientes dos décadas la...