Este es un libro en el que podrán encontrarse los aspectos relevantes de la evolución del merengue y la bachata. Su propósito es compartir con el mundo la apasionante historia y la realidad actual de estos ritmos nacidos de las más profundas fibras de la cultura dominicana. Siguiendo las raíces y el curso de desarrollo de estas expresiones musicales se llega a la fragua en la que se ha forjado la forma de ser del dominicano. Tanto el merengue como la bachata, con más de un siglo de diferencia, fueron desdeñados y combatidos por quienes entendían que eran propios de la plebe e indignos de la gente culta y las clases acomodadas. Merengue y bachata se manifestaron como expresiones de la vibrátil sensibilidad del pueblo, y como tal, fueron conquistando todos los terrenos sociales, hasta convertirse en lo que son hoy día.

El merengue y la bachata (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Velázquez, Carlos

Urena, Alejandro

Music

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality." —NPR Books The English-language debut of “one of the most original and entertaining voices in contemporary Mexican literature” (Revista Gatopardo): a collection of surreal, ironic, and madcap stories about the comedy and brutality of life in Mexico. The provocateur and cult sensation Carlos Velázquez has earned comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, and has been called “a grand storyteller” (Diario Jornada) and “an icon” (Frente). In these seven surreal and unsettling tales, he portrays the comedy and brutality of a region that has captivated the North American imagination. Akin to Márquez’s Macondo or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Velázquez’s PopSTock! is a fictional territory in a familiar but strange northern Mexico. Throughout the stories is woven the Cowboy Bible—a mystical and protean object that first appears as the talisman of a Santería-practicing luchador, DJ, and art critic, then later morphs into an unbeatable marathon drinker, a scion of a fried-chicken vendor dynasty who becomes a Communist guerilla freedom fighter, and the leather for a pair of boots so coveted that it leads a man to grant the devil a night with his wife. With such otherworldly scenarios, pop-culture panache, and Velázquez’s linguistic inventiveness, The Cowboy Bible is a brazen commentary on modern Mexican reality.

The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

United States

Restless Books

What you will find in these pages are stories of triumph over health issues, real-life transformations, notes and tips from an artist’s chair, how taking care of yourself TRULY matters, and how you can be your best badass self.

Unzipped: The Guide to Being Your Best Badass Self

Payne, Myaann

Flores, Joshaa

Annise, Erica

Giger, Noel

Fernández, Isabel

Graphic Design

El Menonita zen / The Zen Mennonite (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Océano.

Unified by an acidic humor, the stories in this collection function as a mirror of a reality that, at first glance, may seem deformed. An overweight man whose wife puts him on a diet of cocaine so that he loses weight, a teenager with Down syndrome who becomes a star keyboardist in a failed punk band, and a black pig with the airs of a diva who dictates wonderful romance novels to its perturbed owner are some of the characters that inhabit Carlos Velázquez’s deranged world. With language that breaks all molds and falls more in line with oral tradition, this book of short stories demonstrates his ability to capture the upheaval of order in everyday life.
Unificados por un humor ácido, los cuentos en esta colección funcionan como un reflejo de una realidad que, a primera vista, parece deforme. Un gordo cuya mujer lo pone a dieta de cocaína para que baje de peso, un adolescente con síndrome de Down que se convierte en el teclista estrella de una fallida banda de punk y una marrana negra con aires de diva que le dicta a su atribulado dueño geniales novelas de literatura rosa son algunos de los personajes que habitan el mundo desquiciado de Carlos Velázquez. Con un lenguaje que demuele todos los moldes y se alinea más con la tradición oral, este libro de cuentos cortos demuestra la capacidad de Velázquez para capturar el trastorno de la orden de la vida diaria.

La marrana negra de la literatura rosa (Narrativa Sexto Piso) (Spanish Edition)

Sexto Piso Editorial

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