| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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Currents in Latin American & Iberian music |
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Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
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| Contents |
Prelude: Sell your love dearly -- Music and Mexican modernity -- From bordello pianist to tropical troubadour: 1897-1930 -- Musical revue, radio and film: 1931-1934 -- Palm trees and pirate nights: 1935-1941 -- Tales of beauty and the bohemian: 1942-1947 -- Postwar cabareteras and boleros: 1948-1953 -- To Spain and Veracruz: 1954-1970 |
| Summary |
"Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco de oro" ("the Golden Skinny"), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific across the genres of bolero, ballad, and folk. His most beloved "Granada", a song so enduring that it has been covered by the likes of Mario Lanza, Frank Sinatra, and Placido Domingo, is today a standard in the vocal repertory. However, there exists very little biographical literature on Lara in English. This book's informed and informative placement of Lara's work in a broader cultural context presents a reading of the life of this significant musical figure. Lara's career as a media celebrity as well as musician provides an excellent window on Mexican society in the mid-twentieth century and on popular culture in Latin America. The book also delves into Lara's music itself, bringing to light how the composer's work unites a number of important currents in Latin music of his day, particularly the bolero."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281), filmography (pages 285-290) , and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title details page (Oxford Scholarship online, viewed April 22, 2020) |
| Subject |
Lara, Agustín, 1897-1970.
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| SUBJECT |
Lara, Agustín, 1897-1970 fast |
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Composers -- Mexico -- Biography
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Composers
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199345496 |
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019934549X |
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9780199892464 |
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0199892466 |
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