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.

La Biblia Vaquera / The Cowgirl Bible (Spanish Edition)

La Efeba Salvaje / The Wilf Ephebe (Spanish Edition)

La marrana negra de la literatura rosa es su más reciente libro de relatos. El punto que los une es un humor ácido, único recurso contra la pérdida de la capacidad de conmoción y asombro. Velázquez es un escritor nato que permite que sus personajes se desenvuelvan de manera natural. Cuenta sus historias con un lenguaje que demuele los moldes rígidos de una escritura que domina al grado de poderse mover con soltura hacia un lenguaje propio, mucho más oral y vivo que lo habitual Sus cuentos son como un espejo que devuelve una imagen precisa de una realidad que de entrada se presenta 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 tecladista estrella de una fallida banda 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 su desquiciado y en extremo verosímil mundo. Un microcosmos magistral, que desternilla y horroriza a la par, decisivo para encontrarle algún sentido a ese orden revuelto y convulso en el que transita cada día nuestra existencia. The black pig of pink literature is his most recent book of stories. The point that unites them is acid humor, the only resource against the loss of the capacity for shock and amazement. Velázquez is a born writer who allows his characters to develop naturally. He tells his stories with a language that demolishes the rigid molds of a writing that he dominates to the point of being able to move with ease towards his own language, much more oral and lively than usual. His stories are like a mirror that returns a precise image of a reality. which at first appears deformed. A fat man whose wife puts him on a cocaine diet to lose weight, a teenager with Down Syndrome who becomes the star keyboardist of a failed punk band, and a black pig with the air of a diva who dictates genius to her troubled owner. pink literature novels are some of the characters that inhabit their deranged and extremely plausible world. A masterful microcosm, which is hilarious and horrifying at the same time, decisive in finding some meaning in that jumbled and convulsive order in which our existence passes every day.

La Marrana negra de la literatura rosa / The black pig of pink literature (Spanish Edition)

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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