La historia empieza en Sumer

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Este libro se centra en la configuración de las prácticas musicales en la ciudad de Asunción del Paraguay durante el período colonial. Los indígenas músicos de los pueblos de indios aledaños –los “indios cantores”–, cobraron protagonismo en la actividad musical urbana al ser trasladados desde la reducciones jesuíticas y pueblos de indios a cargo de curas seculares y franciscanos hasta Asunción para fiestas y celebraciones, propiciando la circulación de bienes, saberes y prácticas. Los esclavos afrodescendientes participaron, por su parte, en las prácticas musicales...

Peter Kornbluh, director del National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project, ha conseguido que se desclasificaran más de 24.000 documentos secretos (los más importantes de los cuales se reproducen en este libro fotográficamente) procedentes de la Secretaría de Estado y de la CIA, sobre la cobertura prestada por Nixon y Kissinger al general Pinochet y a los militares golpistas para acabar con la democracia en Chile. Este libro, que supone un salto cualitativo en el conocimiento del golpe de estado que derrocó a Salvador Allende, de la brutal represión interior que siguió, y de...