Tania León`s Stride – A Polyrhythmic Life Madrid Hardback 9780252043949

Tania Len's StrideA Polyrhythmic Life\nAuthor(s): Alejandro L. Madrid\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252043949, 978-0252043949\nSynopsis\nAcclaimed composer, sought-after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts--Tania Len's achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of the artist. Breaking from a chronological account, Madrid looks at Len through the issues that have informed and defined moments in her life and her professional works. Len's words become a starting ground--but also a counterpoint--to the accounts of the people in her orbit. What emerges is more than an extraordinary portrait of an artist's journey. It is a story of how a human being reacts to the challenges thrown at her by history itself, be it the Cuban .