Catherine Dower-Gold’s Puerto Rican Musical History Book to Be Featured at 2013 Guadalajara International Book Fair
Holyoke, Mass. (PRWEB) September 19, 2013 -- With the publication of her Spanish-language edition of “Actividades Musicales en Puerto Rico: Despues de La Guerra Hispanoamericana 1898-1910” (published by Trafford Publishing), author Catherine Dower-Gold made her history of Puerto Rico available to Spanish-speaking readers. The book will now enjoy a new marketing push at the 2013 Guadalajara Book Fair.
The Guadalajara Book Fair presents an unprecedented opportunity for the Latin American Market as over 20,000 members of the trade descend on the city of Guadalajara to find books for nearly 2,000 publishing houses from 43 countries (nearly 700 thousand attend the fair, including the public).
“Actividades Musicales en Puerto Rico” discusses a variety of musical activities of the era 1898-1910, and is based mainly on music manuscripts found in church choir lofts and private collections of families from Puerto Rican composers, newspapers and journals, collections found in the Archivo General de Puerto Rico and information in the Library of Congress and National Archives in Washington, D.C.
“Actividades Musicales en Puerto Rico”
By Catherine Dower-Gold
Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 332 pages | ISBN 9781412068017
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Catherine Dower-Gold is a professor emerita and chairman of Westfield State University in Massachusetts, where she started the music department and taught for 35 years.
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