La Música Que Nos Define / The Music That Defines Us

LA M SICA NO SE CREA NI SE DESTRUYE, SOLO SE TRANSFORMA.

Si tuvieras que explicarle a un alien qu diablos es la m sica, c mo lo har as? Nada f cil, cierto? Porque la m sica est presente en nuestra vida desde que nacemos, con las canciones que marcan nuestro primer amor y ruptura, hasta las que algunos eligen para partir. La m sica nos recuerda los mejores momentos, todos esos lugares y personas que nos provocan tanta emoci n que queremos cantar, gritar y subir todo el volumen. Lo sabemos: la m sica es el lenguaje universal, sin fronteras culturales ni idiom ticas, que toca nuestro lado m s profundo.

La m sica que nos define, mi primer libro, no intenta ser un documento hist rico ni una tesis de musicolog a. Por el contrario, es una invitaci n a divertirnos y conocer un sinf n de historias y curiosidades que nos permiten entender c mo diablos algo tan simple, como pudiera ser una canci n, termina transformando nuestro mundo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

MUSIC IS NEITHER CREATED NOR DESTROYED. ONLY TRANSFORMED.

If you had to explain to an alien what music is, how would you do it? It wouldn't be easy, right? Because music is a part of life since the day we are born, like the songs that mark our first love and our first breakup, even the songs some people choose to depart. Music reminds us of better days, of all those places and people that evoke such heavy emotions we want to sing, and scream, and turn the volume all the way up. We know it--music is the universal language, free of cultural and idiomatic boundaries, that touches on our deepest self.

The Music that Defines Us, my first book, is not intended as a historical document nor a musicology thesis. On the contrary, it is an invitation to have fun and read countless stories and interesting facts to help us understand how on earth does something as simple as a song, end up transforming our world.