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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. Este libro, producto del trabajo colaborativo con la Red de Periodistas Musicales de Iberoamérica, propone un repaso por las historias de músicos y bandas icónicas, desde los inicios de este género musical hasta las vanguardias más recientes. Cumbia somos recupera las peculiaridades geográficas y sociales que inciden en cada una de las aproximaciones y apropiaciones de ese lenguaje tropical expansivo y honra la multiplicidad de sonidos emanados del género: de artistas, como Totó La Mamposina, Los Ángeles Azules, Los Mirlos, Los Palmeras, Celso Piña, Yeison Landero, Gilda o Polibio Mayorga, de sellos emblemáticos, como Discos Fuentes, Codiscos y de colectivos, como Zizek, Los Pirañas y Sonido Gallo Negro. La cumbia es una banda sonora transgeneracional y multicultural, un patrimonio musical y bailable de la humanidad. ¡Que viva la cumbia y se baile por siempre!
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
En Iberoamérica sonora encontrarás autores que proceden de urbes como Buenos Aires, Ciudad de México, Bogotá, Los Ángeles, Santiago, Caracas, Quito, Guadalajara y Medellín y que de unos meses a la fecha se reconocen a través de un diálogo frecuente que, directa o indirectamente, impulsa la difusión del trabajo de músicos como los que aquí se incluyen. No podemos negar que las formas contemporáneas de interacción –los medios sociales, la internet, los llamados teléfonos inteligentes, las revistas digitales– han revolucionado nuestro mundo. Estas páginas que tienes entre tus manos son sólo otra consecuencia de ello y el testimonio fehaciente de que la música asimismo puede trascender fronteras y gustos de la mano de quienes nos dedicamos a su estudio, su difusión y la lúdica amplificación de su magia irrefrenable.
De Mon Laferte a Rosalía, de Miss Bolivia a Natalia Lafourcade o de Ana Prada a Marta Gómez, cada vez son más las artistas que reflejan el empoderamiento femenino en sus canciones. Cantoras todas reúne veinte perfiles de algunas de las voces más trascendentes del siglo XXI en Iberoamérica. Tanto en sus historias personales como en los procesos creativos, así como en sus influencias y en los grandes hitos de sus carreras, la cuestión de género atraviesa estos textos, que con rigor periodístico, empatía y, en muchos casos, intimidad, construyen un mapa de la canción femenina de nuestra época.Este libro fue realizado por integrantes de la Red de Periodistas Musicales en Iberoamérica (REDPEM), melómanos comprometidos con la difusión de la música y sus creadores.
Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist, Cemil, in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul. Living in an unremarkable apartment complex in the outskirts of Ankara, Cemil spends his days going on walks, cooking for his wife, repairing leaks in his neighbor’s bathroom, and having elaborate imaginary conversations in his head with his potential editor about the meaning of life and art. Uncertain of whether his manuscript will be accepted, Cemil wavers between thoughtful meditations on the origin of the universe and the trajectory of political literature in Turkey, panic over his own worth as a writer, and incredulity toward the objects that make up his quiet world in the Ankara suburbs.
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
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"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph "A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state." Clarissa de Waal, author of ALBANIA: PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION "Albania, enigmatic, mysterious Albania, was always the untold story of the Cold War, the 1989 revolutions and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mud Sweeter Than Honey goes a very long way indeed towards putting that right" New European After breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed ...
'Nicholas Wong is a poet and teacher and even a "fire-starter," according to Time Out: Hong Kong. His poetry collection Crevasse, which Tarfia Faizullah described as "poetry that is unashamed to be relentless" and Ocean Vuong called "a book of seared seeking, a restlessness that opens," is Kaya's most recent release. In celebration of this book, Kaya asked him a few questions about language, poetry, and writing. Nicholas Wong has has been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Award and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and he received his MFA from City University of Hong Kong.--
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...