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Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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The crowd sways to the melodic strumming of a bossa nova guitarist. A vocalist belts out lyrics that blend English and Spanish. Couples dance to salsa's syncopated rhythms. These are the sounds of Latin music. Before Latin music exploded into the mainstream in the 1990s, it was on the sidelines of American pop. Ritchie Valens fused Latin dance music with rock. Julio Iglesias popularized Latin ballads in the United States. And Gloria Estefan was the...
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"What started as an underground party business-- run and dominated by youths and hustlers-- grew into the music business's greatest and biggest success. This is the first-ever big-picture history of the American electronic dance music underground, viewed through the lens of nineteen parties over thirty years--from the black, gay underground clubs of Chicago and Detroit's elite teen-party scene through nineties "electronica" to today's EDM-festival...
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Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor.
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"What are the differences between trance and chill out? How can you create compelling, professional-sounding original or remixed dance tracks? With [this book], you'll get coverage of every aspect of dance music production-- from designing sounds to compression, from effects to mixing and mastering-- and go even further, with advice on publishing and promoting your tracks. No matter your level of experience, this book is packed with techniques...
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The most comprehensive and definitive book on Polish Dance in the English language, this work contains in-depth descriptions of over 80 of Poland's most characteristic and interesting dances, including such national dances as the Polonez, the Mazur, the Kujawiak, the Oberek, the Krakowiak, and over 70 selected dances from Mazowsze, Malopolska, Silesia, Wielkopolska, and Pomorze. For each dance, the author provides step-by-step instructions on the...
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