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Una Sencilla Melodia Habanera

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060543531
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Una Sencilla Melodia Habanera written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corre el año 1947, e Israel Levis -- un compositor cubano cuya vida había sido un ensueño de música, amor y tristeza -- regresa a Cuba después de haber sido equivocadamente encarcelado durante la ocupación nazista de Francia. Cuando Levis regresa a La Habana, su mente vuelve al pasado al recordar su amor no correspondido por la hechizante Rita Valladares, una cantante para quien Levis había escrito su canción más famosa, "Rosas Puras." Esta composición que data de 1928, se convirtió en la rumba más célebre del mundo, y cambió para siempre el gusto por la música y el baile. Una historia de amor por el arte, la familia y la patria, Una Sen-cilla Melodía Habanera es una actuación de virtuosismo por parte de uno de nuestros más importantes escritores.

Una Sincilla Melodia Habanera

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Una Sincilla Melodia Habanera written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Simple Habana Melody

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060928697
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book A Simple Habana Melody written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1947, and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love, and sadness, returns to Cuba after being mistakenly imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of France. When Levis arrives back in Habana, his mind returns to an unrequited romance with the alluring Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras." This 1928 composition became the most famous rumba in the world and changed American and European tastes in music and dance forever. A love story -- of art, family, and country -- A Simple Habana Melody is a virtuoso performance from one of our most important writers.

Cuban Studies 35

Author : Lisandro Prez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822970910
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Studies 35 written by Lisandro Prez and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

Author : Raymond L. Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231501692
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 written by Raymond L. Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era. Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusses the rise of the modernist novel in the 1940s, led by Jorge Luis Borges's reaffirmation of the right of invention, and covers the advent of the postmodern generation of the 1990s in Brazil, the Generation of the "Crack" in Mexico, and the McOndo generation in other parts of Latin America. An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors, coverage of major topics, and brief introductions to individual novels. It also addresses such areas as women's writing, Afro-Latin American writing, and magic realism. The guide's final section includes an annotated bibliography of introductory studies on the Latin American and Caribbean novel, national literary traditions, and the work of individual authors. From early attempts to synthesize postcolonial concerns with modernist aesthetics to the current focus on urban violence and globalization, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 presents a comprehensive, accessible portrait of a thoroughly diverse and complex branch of world literature.

Cassette Books

Author : Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Cassette Books written by Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Los Reyes del Mambo Tocan Canciones de Amor

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060952143
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Los Reyes del Mambo Tocan Canciones de Amor written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1996-10-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1949. Dos jóvenes cubanos músicos salen de la Habana y llegan al gran teatro de Nueva York. Es la temporada del mambo, y los hermanos Castillo, quienes trabajan duro durante el día, pronto se convierten en las estrellas de la noche en las salas de baile donde que su orquesta toca la música sensual y vibrante que les gana el título de Los Reyes del Mambo. Esta es su juventud -- una época que treinta años después, recordarán con nostalgia y afecto. En Los Reyes del Mambo Tocan Canciones de Amor, Oscar Hijuelos crea una obra rica y fascinante sobre la pasión y la muerte, la memoria y el deseo.

Talking Book Topics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Talking Book Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes audio versions, and annual title-author index.

Latino(a) Research Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latino(a) Research Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School Library Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empress of the Splendid Season

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060928700
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Empress of the Splendid Season written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-01-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes Lydia's tale with the stories of her clients, contrasting her experiences with the secret lives of those for whom she works. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city, nor has any writer better captured the complexity inherent in the emigration experience; how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams, yet also a loss of the past. Empress of the Splendid Season is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a novel filled with incantatory, rhythmic prose and rich in heartfelt vision.

MAMBO KINGS PLAY SON

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher : HarpPeren
ISBN 13 : 9780060973278
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book MAMBO KINGS PLAY SON written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by HarpPeren. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1949. Two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. It is the era of the mambo, and Castillo brothers, workers by day, become by night stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth--a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep affection. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss and memory and desire.

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060927547
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Ives' Christmas written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story--of a man for his wife, for his children, for God--and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us.

Forthcoming Books

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music

Author : Dale Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135900086
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music written by Dale Olsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Latin America and describes the history, geography, demography, and cultural settings of the regions that comprise Latin America. It also explores the many ways to research Latin American music, including archaeology, iconography, mythology, history, ethnography, and practice. Part Two focuses on issues and processes, such as history, politics, geography, and immigration, which are responsible for the similarities and the differences of each region’s uniqueness and individuality. Part Three focuses on the different regions, countries, and cultures of Caribbean Latin America, Middle Latin America, and South America with selected regional case studies. The second edition has been expanded to cover Haiti, Panama, several more Amerindian musical cultures, and Afro-Peru. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide focus attention on what musical and cultural issues arise when one studies the music of Latin America -- issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. Two audio compact discs offer musical examples of some of the music of Latin America.

Books in Print Supplement

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2576 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barrio Rhythm

Author : Steven Joseph Loza
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062889
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Barrio Rhythm written by Steven Joseph Loza and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican-American community in East Los Angeles. With the recent "Eastside Renaissance" in the area, barrio music has taken on symbolic power throughout the Southwest, yet its story has remained undocumented and virtually untold. In Barrio Rhythm, Steven Loza brings this hidden history to life, demonstrating the music's essential role in the cultural development of East Los Angeles and its influence on mainstream popular culture. Drawing from oral histories and other primary sources, as well as from appropriate representative songs, Loza provides a historical overview of the music from the nineteenth century to the present and offers in-depth profiles of nine Mexican-American artists, groups, and entrepreneurs in Southern California from the post-World War II era to the present. His interviews with many of today's most influential barrio musicians, including members of Los Lobos, Eddie Cano, Lalo Guerrero, and Willie chronicle the cultural forces active in this complex urban community.