"Experience Latin café culture with these exceptional singer-songwriters from Mexico City to Buenos Aires."--Container.

Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a history of each musical style, from its roots to its expression along with glimpses of the lives of leading composers and musicians. This volume focuses on the style of Latin music.

The author describes his boyhood summers spent at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem where she introduced him to the sounds and steps of the merengue and the conga and told him stories of Puerto Rico.

A behind the scenes look at some of the biggest Latin hits of the past fifty years with the stories behind the songs told in detail by the artists, executives, producers, and players who created them.

Lido Pimienta is a Toronto-based, Colombian-born interdisciplinary musician and artist-curator. She has performed, exhibited, and curated around the world since 2002, exploring the politics of gender, race, motherhood, identity, and the construct of the Canadian landscape in the Latin American diaspora and vernacular. Her new album takes her ecstatic hybridity to a new level, building on the 2018-2019; intersection of electronica and cumbia established...