Agustín Lara : a cultural biography

Agustín Lara : a cultural biography / Andrew Grant Wood.

"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 ac...

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Main Author: Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
Subjects:
Lara, Agustín, > 1897-1970.
Lara, Agustín, > 1897-1970
Composers > Mexico > Biography.
Composers
Mexico
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: Sell your love dearly
  • Music and Mexican modernity
  • From bordello pianist to tropical troubadour: 1897-1930
  • Musical revue, radio and film: 1931-1934
  • Palm trees and pirate nights: 1935-1941
  • Tales of beauty and the bohemian: 1942-1947
  • Postwar cabareteras and boleros: 1948-1953
  • To Spain and Veracruz: 1954-1970.

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