Leonardo Da Vinci was a child prodigy whose development can be traced from age five to the beginning of his adolesence, two years before he entered Verrocchio's workshop.
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicalia, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post-colonial world.
De la movida sonidera mexicana a la cumbia villera argentina, de la psicodélica chicha peruana al sonido ancestral colombiano, la cumbia es un bien cultural que une e identifica a Latinoamérica.
In einer Zeit politischer Umwälzungen und kultureller Blüte begegneten sich zwei außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten: der tschechische Klaviervirtuose und Komponist Jan Ladislas Dussek und Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen, ein leidenschaftlicher Musiker und Förderer der Künste.
Black British Music in America 1967-2000: Atlantic Crossover historically examines musical and cultural relationships through popular music recordings, exploring the transatlantic journeys via academic, critical, and commercial reception of the music.
Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar (Approaches to Monteverdi: Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies, published in the Variorum series in 2013), the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman's work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music.
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.
Barocke Musik – geistliche wie weltliche – wurde im Zuge der Kolonialisierung von Europäern nach Südamerika gebracht und verbreitete sich dort in verschiedenen Kontexten.
