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Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Popular Music Books (2002) Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's (SEM) Alan P. Merriam Prize (2003) Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and performance. Despite their geographic distance from the Caribbean and from Hispanic Caribbean migrants in New York City, Caleños (people from Cali) claim unity with Cubans, Puerto Ricans and New York Latinos by virtue of their having adopted salsa as their own. The City of Musical Memory explores ...
"Esta novela reconstruye una edad de oro de la Escuela de Minas de Medellín a través de cinco personajes principales que cursaron su carrera académica durante aquellos años."
International Arbitration: Law and Practice (Third Edition) provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the basic principles and legal doctrines, and the practice, of international arbitration. The book contains a systematic, but concise, treatment of all aspects of the arbitral process, including international arbitration agreements, international arbitral proceedings and international arbitral awards. The Third Edition guides both students and practitioners through the entire arbitral process, beginning with drafting, enforcing and interpreting international arbitration agreements, to selecting arbitrators and conducting arbitral proceedings, to recognizing, enforcing and seeking ...
Con toda esa información ordenada cronológicamente por secuencias, ciclos, semestres y tendencias, como si Mauricio Laurens, excelente crítico y maestro, pretendiera ocultar que se trata del interesante y ameno ejercicio de celebrar la iniciativa de convertir el aula en sala virtual... Mauricio Laurens en Enfoques de película, no sólo nos invita a revisar las relaciones de la pantalla grande con las letras y la belleza artística, sino a indagar en lo más profundo de los personajes: su condición humana. Las intenciones de esta obra son históricas y críticas, pero en ella también se advierten propósitos cognitivos y pedagógicos: la cuidadosa planificación de los temas, la elaboración de los contenidos y la minuciosa descripción del panorama, que tienen como fines orientar y educar al lector.