by Joaquín Díaz · ISBN 9788481830194
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Leyendas tradicionales is a book written by Joaquín Díaz, published in 1996 by Ámbito. This first edition has 94 pages and is written in Spanish. The book compiles traditional legends, offering a vision of popular culture and folklore.
Joaquin Diaz González is a Spanish ethnomusicologist, folklorist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his work researching and collecting Spanish folk songs and folk lore, and for his extensive recording and performing of this literature as a musician. In 1980 he founded the monthly journal Revista de folklore and created the Centro Castellano de Estudios Folklóricos at the University of Valladolid where he is a professor. He was elected a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de la Purísima Concepción in 1982, and served as the vice president of the Sociedad Ibérica de Etnomusicología in 1993–1994. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes Diaz González as having a "prominent place as a Spanish folklorist".
