Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art [Paperback]

Pablo Yglesias (Author), Izzy Sanabria (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 2005

Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling record covers that present this music to the world.

Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art draws together the most beautiful, sexy, colorful, innovative, and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music: mambo, salsa, bossa nova, tropiclia, Latin jazz, and rock. Featured are covers by such legendary performers as Joo Gilberto, Machito, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ray Baretto, Caetano Veloso, Santana, and countless others.

Author Pablo Yglesias provides a compelling introduction to the history of Latin popular music and the designers who have brought this music to visual life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"'Cocinando' means cooking and this book sizzles...a beautiful anthology that will act like catnip for record collectors..." -- Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 17, 2005

"Anyone who allows visual cues to send them into a nostalgia about music will delight in Cocinando." -- Ed Morales, New York Newsday, April 10, 2005

"Sexy, innovative, mythic, beautiful, 'Cocinando!' is a celebration of life, music, and art..." -- Loft Insider, March 2005

"The book lives up to its title, serving up social history and...delights of the flesh in equal measure..." -- Boston Globe, April 3, 2005

...a must for any collector... -- The Beat, July/August 2005

A deeply detailed and knowledgeable overview of Latino album cover design from the last half of the twentieth century. -- Communication Arts Magazine, Sept/Oct 2005

Cocinando! is a simply gorgeous, rich presentation with full-page color album covers packing every page. -- Library Bookwatch, October 2005

You don't need to be a record collector to realize the cover artwork was often as seductive as the music. -- New York Post, May 11, 2005

the meanings and motivations behind the images used to market Latin music are often intriguing, inspirational or divisive at turns. -- Songlines, Nov/Dec 2005

visuals at the core of Yglesias's history of record packaging glow in saturated colours, well matched by his vibrant writing. -- The Wire, Dec 2005

About the Author

Pablo Yglesias is a Massachusetts-based graphic designer and DJ. Izzy Sanabria is the legendary art director of Fania Records.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (January 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156898460X
• ISBN-13: 978-1568984605
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb., March 14, 2005

By 

Whiteford (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art (Paperback)

I find COCINANDO! FIFTY YEARS OF LATIN ALBUM COVER ART, to be a model of what such a book should be. Its creator, Pablo Ellicott Yglesias, has created a true work of art. (Review by Whiteford, a bibliophile.)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yglesias Makes Music Jump Off the Page, March 17, 2005

By 

Terrence Gargiulo "President, MAKINGSTORIES.n... (Monterey, CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art (Paperback)

If you're going to be stuck some place without music - Bring This Book With You! This book swims with visual excitement and indepth analysis of an exciting genre that is poorly understood. Pablo Yglesias acts a curator Extraordinaire in this not to be missed work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A simply gorgeous, rich presentation with full-page color album covers packing every page, October 11, 2005

By 

Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art (Paperback)

Other books have been written on rock album cover art: here's the first to cover fifty years of the brightest and best album covers in Latin music history - and those who fostered them. Using album covers over the decades, Cocinadndo is an artistic, visual treat of the best Latin record covers from all genres of Latin music, from congo and bassa nova to salsa. Cocinando! is a simply gorgeous, rich presentation with full-page color album covers packing every page.