{"product_id":"esquivel-un-artista-del-sonido-de-la-era-espacial-spanish-edition-isbn-9781623545758","title":"¡Esquivel! Un artista del sonido de la era espacial (Spanish Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA playful picture-book biography of the father of space-age bachelor-pad lounge music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGorgeously illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, this lively biography follows Juan Garcia Esquivel from Mexico to New York City. Juan grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands; he loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. His musical dreams brought him from Mexico to America and gained him worldwide renown. Juan’s space-age lounge music—popular in the fifties and sixties—has found a new generation of listeners. This account honors Esquivel as one of the great composers of the 20th century.Much as Juan García Esquivel (1918–2002) made a great contribution to  music history, this title is an important addition to music biography  collections. Beginning with Tampico, Mexico, the text and illustrations  work together to showcase how a world filled with sound influenced and  inspired a young Esquivel and continued to do so throughout his life.  Esquivel is shown listening to “whirling” mariachi bands, modifying a  player piano to suit his own compositions, experimenting with unusual  instruments like the theremin, and conducting musicians in unique and  unprecedented ways. The text explores how Esquivel’s love of sound led  to new ways of making music, most notably in his pioneering of stereo  sound and lounge music. Tonatiuh’s illustrations are lively and  colorful—-a perfect match for Esquivel’s personality and work.  Occasional blocks of text make this title best suited for upper  elementary students. Back matter includes an author’s note expanding on  Esquivel’s influence and an illustrator’s note on how the art was  created. A beautiful addition to music biography collections for upper  elementary students.\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wood and Tonatiuh combine to tell the story of a musician and  composer kids have likely never heard of. At 6, Juan García Esquivel  figured out how to disable the paper roll in his family's player piano,  leaving him free to experiment and learn how to play the instrument  himself. This spirit of experimentation never left Juan, who went on to  become a pioneer in a quirky, innovative style of lounge music popular  in the 1950s and '60s. Esquivel!, as he became known, combined Latin  rhythms, jazz, human voices, and unusual instruments in order to create  unique musical textures and effects. During his career, Juan became  popular in both Mexico and the United States, and he wrote many songs  for TV shows and movies. The narrative presents the biographical facts  of Juan's life in an engaging and accessible manner. Young readers who  have never before heard of this musician may find their curiosity  piqued. However, it is Tonatiuh's illustrations that truly spark the  imagination. Tonatiuh employs his signature style of Mixtec  codex-influenced design, combines it with playful tributes to the  fashion and style of the 1960s, sprinkles in text blocks of onomatopoeia  that seem to vibrate on the page, and fills in the empty areas with a  watery mix of purples and blues that perfectly complements the spacey  style expressed in the music. A lively introduction to a somewhat  obscure and profoundly innovative musical figure.\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Juan Garcia Esquivel created out-of-this-world sounds, and Wood  (formerly VanHecke) and Tonatiuh capture the fascinating story of  Esquivel's musical talent in this picture-book biography. Esquivel was a  young boy in Tampico, Mexico, when he discovered his love for music. He  taught himself to play the piano, and before he knew it he was  conducting orchestras and composing music. Esquivel is revered for his  innovative sounds that were said to transport listeners to other worlds.  His music was so popular that his fans donned him Esquivel!--with an  exclamation point! Wood's story provides insight to the making of a  magnificent musician and incorporates enough sound effects (\u003ci\u003ewheedy-whee!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eblap!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ebowm-bowm!\u003c\/i\u003e)  to make Esquivel proud. Energetic collage illustrations complement the  text by allowing readers to see Esquivel's sounds and his love for  music. Sibert Award winner Tonatiuh (\u003ci\u003eFunny Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, 2015) draws in  his well-known style inspired by the Mixtec codex, where characters are  represented in profile. Back matter includes an author's note with  supplementary information on Esquivel's life, an illustrator's note on  the artwork, and additional resources.\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e       \u003cb\u003eWritten by\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrated by\u003c\/b\u003e Duncan Tonatiuh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlesbridge\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCategory:\u003c\/b\u003e Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography - Music; Juvenile  Nonfiction - People \u0026amp; Places - United States - Hispanic \u0026amp; Latino \u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover, 32 pages \u003cb\u003eOn Sale Date:\u003c\/b\u003e September 2016  \u003cb\u003ePrice US:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e$17.95\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781580896733 \u003cbr\u003eAlso available as an eBook and an eBook.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reviews...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Much  as Juan García Esquivel (1918–2002) made a great  contribution to music  history, this title is an important addition to  music biography  collections. Beginning with Tampico, Mexico, the text  and illustrations  work together to showcase how a world filled with  sound influenced and  inspired a young Esquivel and continued to do so  throughout his life.  Esquivel is shown listening to “whirling” mariachi  bands, modifying a  player piano to suit his own compositions,  experimenting with unusual  instruments like the theremin, and conducting  musicians in unique and  unprecedented ways. The text explores how  Esquivel’s love of sound led  to new ways of making music, most notably  in his pioneering of stereo  sound and lounge music. Tonatiuh’s  illustrations are lively and  colorful—-a perfect match for Esquivel’s  personality and work.  Occasional blocks of text make this title best  suited for upper  elementary students. Back matter includes an author’s  note expanding on  Esquivel’s influence and an illustrator’s note on how  the art was  created. A beautiful addition to music biography collections  for upper  elementary students.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- School Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWood  and Tonatiuh combine to tell the story of a musician and composer kids  have likely never heard of. At 6, Juan García Esquivel figured out how  to disable the paper roll in his family's player piano, leaving him free  to experiment and learn how to play the instrument himself. This spirit  of experimentation never left Juan, who went on to become a pioneer in a  quirky, innovative style of lounge music popular in the 1950s and '60s.  Esquivel!, as he became known, combined Latin rhythms, jazz, human  voices, and unusual instruments in order to create unique musical  textures and effects. During his career, Juan became popular in both  Mexico and the United States, and he wrote many songs for TV shows and  movies. The narrative presents the biographical facts of Juan's life in  an engaging and accessible manner. Young readers who have never before  heard of this musician may find their curiosity piqued. However, it is  Tonatiuh's illustrations that truly spark the imagination. Tonatiuh  employs his signature style of Mixtec codex-influenced design, combines  it with playful tributes to the fashion and style of the 1960s,  sprinkles in text blocks of onomatopoeia that seem to vibrate on the  page, and fills in the empty areas with a watery mix of purples and  blues that perfectly complements the spacey style expressed in the  music. A lively introduction to a somewhat obscure and profoundly  innovative musical figure.\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJuan Garcia  Esquivel created out-of-this-world sounds, and Wood (formerly VanHecke)  and Tonatiuh capture the fascinating story of Esquivel's musical talent  in this picture-book biography. Esquivel was a young boy in Tampico,  Mexico, when he discovered his love for music. He taught himself to play  the piano, and before he knew it he was conducting orchestras and  composing music. Esquivel is revered for his innovative sounds that were  said to transport listeners to other worlds. His music was so popular  that his fans donned him Esquivel!--with an exclamation point! Wood's  story provides insight to the making of a magnificent musician and  incorporates enough sound effects (\u003ci\u003ewheedy-whee!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eblap!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ebowm-bowm!\u003c\/i\u003e)  to make Esquivel proud. Energetic collage illustrations complement the  text by allowing readers to see Esquivel's sounds and his love for  music. Sibert Award winner Tonatiuh (\u003ci\u003eFunny Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, 2015) draws in  his well-known style inspired by the Mixtec codex, where characters are  represented in profile. Back matter includes an author's note with  supplementary information on Esquivel's life, an illustrator's note on  the artwork, and additional resources.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWood (\u003ci\u003eUnder the Freedom Tree\u003c\/i\u003e) and Tonatiuh (\u003ci\u003eFunny Bones\u003c\/i\u003e)   team up to recount the life of Juan Garcia Esquivel (1918-2002), who   grew up with music in Mexico, \"where whirling mariachi bands let out   joyful yells as they stamped and strummed,\" and made it his life's work   as a bandleader and composer. Tonatiuh's Mexican-art-inspired collages   translate smoothly to the 1950s and '60s, when Esquivel was at the   height of his creative output, creating lounge music using newly   developed stereo recording technology. Wood's straightforward narration   moves readers briskly through the musician's life, and her descriptions   of the sounds he developed (\"like a crazy rocket ride zigzagging  through  outer space\") should lead many of them to seek out recordings  of his  work. It's a welcome tribute to an underrated figure in 20th  century  music. A Spanish-language edition is available simultaneously.\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA  kid’s got to be careful in admitting a taste for grandparents’ music.  Mick Jagger is acceptable, and Aretha Franklin’s not too  embarrassing—and as Wood and Tonatiuh demonstrate in this picture-book  biography, being part of Juan Garcia Esquivel fandom could be insanely  cool. An autodidact at the piano, Esquivel had landed a modest piano gig  on a Mexico City radio station by age fourteen and led a radio  orchestra by age seventeen. With a keen ear attuned to urban  soundscapes, he played fast and loose with popular Mexican tunes, lacing  them with a kind of instrumental take on vocal scat that made him a  recording star in both Mexico and the United States. Wood describes not  only the quirkiness of his instrumentation but also how Esquivel arrived  on the scene just in time to take advantage of new recording techniques  and stereophonic sound separation, and how he was able to make a home  in a range of sonic media, from Las Vegas stage shows, to television and  movies, and of course, vinyl. That’s all well and good, but for kids  who haven’t heard Esquivel, they’ll need more incentive, and Wood brings  it. Her closing note focuses on the 1990s resurgence of interest in  Esquivel’s recordings, which segues happily into the current rediscovery  of the pleasures of vinyl. Tonatiuh reprises the Maya-influenced style  audiences may recognize from \u003ci\u003eFunny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras\u003c\/i\u003e (BCCB  10\/15), but he infuses its formality with some freewheeling text and  swirling motif design suggestive of Sean Qualls. The Resources page  tosses in a couple of quotation credits and adult print references but  concentrates on websites of Esquivel interviews and YouTube performances  virtually guaranteed to secure the late orchestra leader a fresh  following. Let the downloads begin.\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- BCCB\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGrowing up in Mexico, Juan Garcia Esquivel got an earful of mariachi, but he wanted to create his own sound. Self-taught and persistent, he was playing piano at a radio station at fourteen and leading an orchestra for a radio comedy show at seventeen. His sound was so infectious that word traveled to the United States; a record company invited him to New York, which led to international success. Esquivel's rewardingly strange instrumentals and his innovations in stereo sound would come to define mid-twentieth-century lounge music. There's not much personal information here--one must turn to the author's note to learn that Esquivel died in 2002--but the story of his professional rise is told with pep and a keen awareness of how to best explain Esquivel's skills to young readers (\"When the radio comedian needed music for a skit about, say, a stout man walking his tiny poodle down a busy city street, Juan had to imagine what that might sound like\"). Illustrator Tonatiuh (\u003ci\u003eThe Princess and the Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e, rev. 9\/16), once again working within the tradition of the fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Mixtec codex, takes a fittingly offbeat approach to portraying the very modern Esquivel, whose music, as Wood puts it, \"sounded like a crazy rocket ride zigzagging through outer space.\" Appended with source notes and lists of assorted resources.\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- The Horn Book Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSusan  Wood, writing formerly as Susan VanHecke, is the the author of RAGGIN'  JAZZIN' ROCKIN': A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS (Boyds  Mills Press, ALA Notable Children's Book) and UNDER THE FREEDOM TREE, as  well as several books for adults. Susan lives in Norfolk, Virginia.De niño, Juan García Esquivel vivía con su familia en Tampico, México, rodeado de la música de los mariachis, sus alegres expresiones y el rasgueo de sus guitarras. \u003cbr\u003e             A los seis años de edad, Juan sintió curiosidad por la música. En su casa había un piano; era en realidad una pianola, instrumento que tiene un rollo de papel perforado que indica qué teclas tocar. Al ingenioso Juan se le ocurrió una idea: desconectó el rollo de papel y convirtió la pianola en algo que él podía utilizar para practicar. 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