Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers.
Marion Robert Morrison, professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed 'The Duke', was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age.
In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negron tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience.
Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century.
