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Toward a New Musical Aesthetics. Confessions of Dr. FreaK
EMILIO AZCÁRATE

Dr. Freak is an alter ego of Emilio Azcaráte, a character that as an extension of himself explores and diagnoses the delicate health of some musical styles devoured by indifference and ignorance. ‘For a New Musical Aesthetics’ is not at all a sketch of the usual treatment, it’s rather the magisterial formula of a musician who as a physician is a cardsharp with words of the kind that unveils their profiles most sharply and ironically. But this text doesn’t just stick with criticism: Azcaráte tells us about one of his methods of composing and how he manages the active principles that intervene in this alchemy of sound that music is. Like a coda the article ends with an ingenious “class” in which the author lucubrates about the future of music in the style of a science fiction narrator.

African musical influences: their impact on Caribbean popular music
VICTORIA ELI RODRÍGUEZ

The Caribbean region is characterized by its cultural pluralism and is the stage for one of the most complex processes of syncreticism and transculturation in the Americas. Music, as an element of integration, while at the same time of regional differentiation, is deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness of the Caribbeans and strongly connected to the identity that defines the region. The role played by Europeans through their settlement on American soils was determining for the consolidation of the musical culture of the Caribbean, but the contributions of Africans were no less decisive for shaping the various genera and species that nowadays occupy privileged spaces within the international diffusion and consumption of music.

Dinosaurs´ fall: homesickness and new marketing strategies
EDUARDO GARCÍA SALUEÑA

We constantly hold on to a vanished past to maintain our identity. What we were turns out to be fundamental for understanding who we are and what we will be. In a society which dizzying rhythm of life is of the order of the day, the artistic outlook, and in particular the musical, incessantly distills symbols that connect with sentimental and attitudinal values, generating contradictory requests and conforming to a market in which the old and the new coexist in very different forms. Through this reflective tour we’ll analyze some of the causes and consequences one might come across, especially in the context of experimental rock since the second half of the 60’s.

Music, globalization and society
SAGRARIO MARTÍNEZ BERRIEL

This article analyzes some of the many and contradictory meanings of music in the context of the globalization: as a sensitive alternative to the cold rationalism of science; as an expression of emergent spirituality; as a space for tolerance in the public arena; and as an instrument of identity and, at the same time, cultural uniformation.

From the sound of vinyl to MP3
REMEDIOS ZAPICO NAVA

Digital music has the advantage that it allows the storage of thousand of songs using minimal space. From various sides the question is raised if in this manner an optimal quality is obtained. In spite of this, the younger generations prefer the sound of MP3 above that of vinyl. Technology has always exerted influence over music, however, from the moment the digital format appears that allows for sounds to be stored as ones and zeros, music production as well as consumption have seen more and more changes, and in such a particular form that musicians and their public now find themselves much closer to one another than any others. The Beatles are classic already, new technologies are the future’s.

Eros and Thanatos: time suspended in the operistic and gothic
SARA OVIEDO CASERO

The opera, born in XVII century and gothic music, born in the 80s of last century, inevitably drag the effluents of XIX century: ennui, melancholy, passion, glamor... Initially snob and allegedly underground are linked by a common sign: to illustrate the sophistication and excess. From an origin and evolution totally incomparable each other for obvious reasons, both are connected by the wave of old school and virtuosity, success factors insured. While the industry is recycled via Internet, the performances of both musics are sacred rituals on the opposite way. Music exchanges with new technologies, television, video games and film, and an expanded scope of growing up is created. At this point, aesthetics and st aging, the two-way audio-visual, as evil and power have many manifestations and a high degree of acceptance, showing equal love to life and death. These two urban music intersect, both maladjusted to the present time, an era where their respective audiences are trapped.

About action and music with no future
IGNACIO GARCÍA HERNANDO

The artistic development of the musician Nilo Gallego, located in Leon (Spain) is an emblem of the courses that concern the different options of the action music. The fact that just a few of the principles -which constitute this kind of sound perception in the beginning- are accepted now, the recurrent appearance of many of the names of the primitive generations, like Llorenç Barber or Juan Hidalgo, and the emphasis given to certain references, could lead us to think that creativity in this field is over, or that the way is definitively fruitless. A more detailed analysis would reveal the problems that could be given away by connecting action music with the evolution myths. It would also detect many of the attributes of musical action both in the new music theatre and in the wide way opened by the art of sounds.

Battered Ground
XAVIER MARÍA FOKS

In musical literature the process of creation appears to be one of the most interesting moments and yet given the least reflection. Xavier María Foks allows us to enter into a universe in which liberty is the only rule. The article, written in the manner of a logbook, tells us what he is doing at this very moment, without concessions to the already exploited styles of instrumental formations. A world of sound in which the experiment, concert, recordings and the road are concocted with the intention of an alchemical sonority.

Music Therapy, its evolution and therapeutic applications
MARINA ELSA DÍAZ HUERGO

This article reports a brief history about Music Therapy, the different lines, and the evolution concerning Music Therapy. Its evolution, up to obtains scientific consideration worldwide, also as an academicals study within many universities, as well as the current situation of these studies in Spain. It talks about professional experience and the different Music Therapy applications possibilities.

Musical reparation. The music workshop as a tool for integrating youth who risk social exclusion
RUBÉN FIGAREDO

Few persons in this problematic society would willingly recognize that they need help. If a tap breaks down one finds it only natural to call a plumber, but nevertheless in case of some psychological or behavioral problem, the general populace reacts with the tactics of the ostrich to keep their heads from harm, no matter how damaged on the inside they are. Indirect methods to put the derailed back on track have shown their virtue in many occasions, and music, as one of its many other effects, has certain undeniable healing qualities that could turn out to be very beneficial as therapy at the moment of reintegrating some groups into society which have been excluded from here, such as youths with certain roblematics–even though it’s true that being perfectly integrated in a society as sick as ours in itself remains a symptom of questionable health. The author shares with us with his experience as the instructor of a musical workshop, familiarizing us with some disciplines that not only help the integration of some, but also provide better learning and greater happiness to all.

Who sounded will sound again? Past, present and future of the Spanish organ
JORGE MÉNDEZ

The backdrop of this work is the current state and the destruction of a musical heritage. It goes in depth into the causes of the disregard of one of our greatest musical riches, namely, the pipe organ. A king dethroned by neglect and new technologies used in music, which has left him stripped of his power and threaten his mere survival. The way things usually go in Spain, the greatest interest for this instrument and the works of genius by many musicians who have written for it can be found abroad where names like Antonio de Cabezón or Padre Antonio Soler are counted among the great international composers.