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Bloomingdale School of Music Piano Project: Sonidos de Espana/Music of Spain – extensive monthly features on the history of Spanish music. Spanish language music Traditional and contemporary Spanish-language music, with genre descriptions, representative artists, CDs & audio samples. Spanish Folk Music in Havana (Photo Album)
It is written in medieval Spanish, the ancestor of modern Spanish. La Celestina is a book published anonymously by Fernando de Rojas in 1499. This book is considered to be one of the greatest in Spanish literature, and traditionally marks the end of medieval literature and the beginning of the literary renaissance in Spain.
Flamenco (Spanish pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋko]) is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia.
The Music of Andalusia encompasses a range of traditional and modern musical genres which originate in the region of Andalusia in southern Spain. The most famous are copla and flamenco , the latter being sometimes used as a portmanteau term for various regional musical traditions within Andalusia.
The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. pp. 406– 419. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6. Benito Rial Costas, ed. (2013). Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities. Brill. ISBN 9789004235748. Antonio Cordón-García José; et al. (2014).
Tejano music suffered and its popularity waned following Selena's death, and record labels began abandoning their Tejano artists. [38] By the mid-1990s, Tejano music was replaced by Latin pop as the dominant Latin music genre in the United States, [39] while radio stations in the US switched from Tejano to Regional Mexican music. [38]
Musical imagiNation: U.S. "Colombian identity and the Latin music boom" 2010 María Elena Cepeda New York University Press 255 ISBN 9780814716915: The book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists like Shakira. [13] Shakira (High Interest Books) 2003 Ursula Rivera Children's Press (CT) 48 ISBN 0-516-27861-4
The earliest Spanish operas appeared in the mid-17th century, with libretti by such famous writers as Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega to music by such composers as Juan Hidalgo de Polanco. These early operas, however, failed to catch the imagination of the Spanish public.