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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography

Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography

Wood, Andrew Grant

Hardcover

Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

MusiciansCountry & FolkWorld Music

ISBN10: 0199892458
ISBN13: 9780199892457
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 11 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as el flaco de oro (the Golden Skinny), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific across the genres of bolero, ballad, and folk. His most beloved Granada, a song so enduring that it has been covered by the likes of Mario Lanza, Frank Sinatra, and Placido Domingo, is today a standard in the vocal repertory. However, there exists very little biographical literature on Lara in English. In Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography, author Andrew Wood's informed and informative placement of Lara's work in a broader cultural context presents a rich and comprehensive reading of the life of this significant musical figure. Lara's career as a media celebrity as well as musician provides an excellent window on Mexican society in the mid-twentieth century and on popular culture in Latin America. Wood also delves into Lara's music itself, bringing to light how the composer's work unites a number of important currents in Latin music of his day, particularly the bolero. With close musicological focus and in-depth cultural analysis riding alongside the biographical narrative, Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography is a welcome read to aficionados and performers of Latin American musics, as well as a valuable addition to the study of modern Mexican music and Latin American popular culture as a whole.

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