This literary work comments on the great emigration of mariachis musicians who, because of the war in San Salvador, arrived in Costa Rica, displacing a large part of Costa Ricans and causing problems for both the guild and its people...

This material collects and writes some of the most important works of folk music bands and marimbas, thus, create a library of traditional music guanacasteca...

This work studies diverse poetics of the Hispanic American song from the medieval lyric to the current popular music. The song, marginalized by centuries, reborn as a poetic-musical genre in the twentieth century, interacting dynamically with contemp..

Critical edition that offers manuscripts and editorial version of the first works written for guitar in Costa Rica in the first half of the 20th century. Its author, Abelardo Álvarez Berrocal, was a shoemaker, self-taught guitarist and composer, who ..

Del son nica al rocknica es un estudio sobre la música popular nicaragüense desde una perspectiva multidimensional que abarca tanto el contexto de la producción cultural como su entramado simbólico y social...

The work makes a review of the practice of academic music in the Central Valley of Costa Rica during the 1940s and 1972, with the aim of studying the musical profession and its professionalization process during that period...