Author: Cruz Figueroa, Jose Edgardo.
Publisher: Book Baby Publishing
Edition:1A
Pages:152
"Con la música a otra parte" weaves fiction and reality to tell the stories that may have inspired some of the most emblematic songs in the Puerto Rican popular repertoire. Through a narrative filled with contradictions and paradoxes, the author reveals how songs, far from stating everything straight-up, hide profound truths. This book invites us to scrutinize in the soundtrack of a bygone era and to reflect on the familiarity that the songs evoke in us, in the process unmasking the harshness and complexity of the human condition" (Noraliz Ruiz-Caraballo, etnomusicóloga, investigadora asociada del Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico y directora musical de la Orquesta Jíbara Dr. Francisco López Cruz, Puerto Rico).