{"product_id":"agustin-lara","title":"Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography","description":"Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as \"el flaco de oro\" (\"the Golden Skinny\"), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific across the genres of bolero, ballad, and folk. His most beloved \"Granada\", a song so enduring that it has been covered by the likes of Mario Lanza, Frank Sinatra, and Placido Domingo, is today a standard in the vocal repertory. However, there exists very little biographical literature on Lara in English. \r\n\r\nIn Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography, author Andrew Wood's informed and informative placement of Lara's work in a broader cultural context presents a rich and comprehensive reading of the life of this significant musical figure. Lara's career as a media celebrity as well as musician provides an excellent window on Mexican society in the mid-twentieth century and on popular culture in Latin America. Wood also delves into Lara's music itself, bringing to light how the composer's work unites a number of important currents in Latin music of his day, particularly the bolero. With close musicological focus and in-depth cultural analysis riding alongside the biographical narrative, Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography is a welcome read to aficionados and performers of Latin American musics, as well as a valuable addition to the study of modern Mexican music and Latin American popular culture as a whole.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46202113229010,"sku":"9780199892457","price":50.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46202113261778,"sku":"19889f27-aac6-313c-a071-01002eb7a17d","price":60.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_602799df-2afd-4752-86c6-cbde16f40277.jpg?v=1762662447","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/agustin-lara","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}