El ritmo perdido
Santiago Auserón
NON-FICTION | 2015 /2020 | 448 pages
The impact that Afro American music had on the Spanish youth of the second half of the 20th century announced the awakening of sonorous ghosts forgotten over the course of history… From his own musical experiences, in this book Santiago Auserón revisits the traces of negritude in the Iberian Peninsula from the times of the Muslim presence, through the fever of popular dances and singing that over the course of the Golden Age caught all social classes and affected the development of the Castilian literature.
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“An intelligent and unusual tour through the tradition of popular Spanish music. An essential book.”
“Santiago Auserón suggests a fascinating journey, both mythical and real, erudite and magical, through the gaps between notes that, in Spain, have lasted for centuries.”
“A thoughtfully documented, argued and well written work. Auserón takes on a very strong thesis, with the courage of an essayist and the caution of a researcher.”
“A book in which Auserón develops all his findings about the African origins that run through the heart of Hispanic music, but at the same time it is a kind of biography that has the flavor of truth.”
BY SANTIAGO AUSERÓN:
Semilla del son
NON-FICTION, 2017
El ritmo perdido
NON-FICTION, 2012, 2015
Canciones de Juan Perro
SONGS, 2012
Canciones de Radio Futura
SONGS, 1999
La imagen sonora
ESSAY, 1998