Much More Yma Sumac (at just $12.95)

If you enjoyed Yma Sumac: The Art Behind the Legend from YBK Publishers, here you can order a CD-Rom containing a supplementary volume—a full 125 pages of additional text and many more photographs—literally, too much for a book to hold (in PDF format viewable with Adobe Reader, preloaded on almost all computers, or available for free at adobe.com). Many of the photographs are in color, including those that appear in this printed volume in black and white—in color on the CD if they came from color originals.

Also included in this supplementary volume:

• an extended detailed critical discussion of every track of Yma Sumac's recorded performances.
• a specific discussion with musical notation of the actual range of Yma's voice as displayed on her recordings
• a precisely detailed international discography
• a treatise on the Peruvian folk music traditions from which Yma arose initially, including some discussion of the Incan influence
• an expansion of discussions begun in this book of the "exotica" movement in American popular music, under which Yma Sumac's music became subsumed
• a brief history of acuto sfogato (vastly extended vocal range) singers including nearly 50 critical considerations of individual singers