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Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling record covers that present this music to the world.
Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art draws together the most beautiful, sexy, colorful, innovative, and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music: mambo, salsa, bossa nova, tropicália, Latin jazz, and rock. Featured are covers by such legendary performers as João Gilberto, Machito, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ray Baretto, Caetano Veloso, Santana, and countless others.
Author Pablo Yglesias provides a compelling introduction to the history of Latin popular music and the designers who have brought this music to visual life.
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Synopsis
Graphic designer and DJ Pablo Yglesias celebrates the best of Latin album cover art from the last 50 years. Organized by genre (jazz, soul, salsa, rock, etc.), the main part of the volume is devoted to full-page reproductions of album covers in vivid color. Each of the eight sections opens with a brief introduction by the author. A discography is found at the back of the volume. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Biography
Pablo Yglesias is a Massachusetts-based graphic designer and DJ. Izzy Sanabria is the legendary art director of Fania Records.
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