A Latin American Music Reader

Author : Javier F Leon,Helena Simonett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252098437

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A Latin American Music Reader by Javier F Leon,Helena Simonett Pdf

Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a collection of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as representative, outstanding, and influential in the field, each article appears in English translation. A detailed new introduction by León and Simonett both surveys and contextualizes the history of Latin American ethnomusicology, opening the door for readers energized by the musical forms brought and nurtured by immigrants from throughout Latin America. Contributors: Marina Alonso Bolaños, José Jorge de Carvalho, Maria Ignêz Cruz Mello, Gonzalo Camacho Díaz, Claudio F. Díaz, Rodrigo Cantos Savelli Gomes, Juan Pablo González, Javier F. León, Rubén López Cano, Angela Lühning, Jorge Martínez Ulloa, Julio Mendívil, Carlos Miñana Blasco, Raúl R. Romero, Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros, Carlos Sandroni, Carolina Santamaría Delgado, Helena Simonett, Rodrigo Torres Alvarado, and Alejandro Vera.

Author : Mark Brill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351682305

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Music of Latin America and the Caribbean by Mark Brill Pdf

Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book is about enjoying the music itself and provides a lively, challenging discussion complemented by stimulating musical examples couched in an appropriate cultural and historical context—the music is a specific response to the era from which it emerges, evolving from common roots to a wide variety of musical traditions. Music of Latin America and the Caribbean aims to develop an understanding of Latin American civilization and its relation to other cultures. NEW to this edition A new chapter overviewing all seven Central American countries An expansion of the chapter on the English- and French-speaking Caribbean An added chapter on transnational genres An end-of-book glossary featuring bolded terms within the text A companion website with over 50 streamed or linked audio tracks keyed to Listening Examples found in the text, in addition to other student and instructors’ resources Bibliographic suggestions at the end of each chapter, highlighting resources for further reading, listening, and viewing Organized along thematic, historical, and geographical lines, Music of Latin America and the Caribbean implores students to appreciate the unique and varied contributions of other cultures while realizing the ways non-Western cultures have influenced Western musical heritage. With focused discussions on genres and styles, musical instruments, important rituals, and the composers and performers responsible for its evolution, the author employs a broad view of Latin American music: every country in Latin America and the Caribbean shares a common history, and thus, a similar musical tradition.

Author : George Torres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216109198

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music by George Torres Pdf

This comprehensive survey examines Latin American music, focusing on popular—as opposed to folk or art—music and containing more than 200 entries on the concepts and terminology, ensembles, and instruments that the genre comprises. The rich and soulful character of Latin American culture is expressed most vividly in the sounds and expressions of its musical heritage. While other scholars have attempted to define and interpret this body of work, no other resource has provided such a detailed view of the topic, covering everything from the mambo and unique music instruments to the biographies of famous Latino musicians. Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music delivers scholarly, authoritative, and accessible information on the subject, and is the only single-volume reference in English that is devoted to an encyclopedic study of the popular music in this genre. This comprehensive text—organized alphabetically—contains roughly 200 entries and includes a chronology, discussion of themes in Latin American music, and 37 biographical sidebars of significant musicians and performers. The depth and scope of the book's coverage will benefit music courses, as well as studies in Latin American history, multicultural perspectives, and popular culture.

Author : Dale Olsen,Daniel Sheehy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135900076

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The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music by Dale Olsen,Daniel Sheehy Pdf

The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Latin America and describes the history, geography, demography, and cultural settings of the regions that comprise Latin America. It also explores the many ways to research Latin American music, including archaeology, iconography, mythology, history, ethnography, and practice. Part Two focuses on issues and processes, such as history, politics, geography, and immigration, which are responsible for the similarities and the differences of each region’s uniqueness and individuality. Part Three focuses on the different regions, countries, and cultures of Caribbean Latin America, Middle Latin America, and South America with selected regional case studies. The second edition has been expanded to cover Haiti, Panama, several more Amerindian musical cultures, and Afro-Peru. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide focus attention on what musical and cultural issues arise when one studies the music of Latin America -- issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. Two audio compact discs offer musical examples of some of the music of Latin America.

Author : Ana del Sarto,Alicia Ríos,Abril Trigo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333406

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The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader by Ana del Sarto,Alicia Ríos,Abril Trigo Pdf

Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies.

Author : John Mendell Schechter
Publisher : Schirmer
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119953714

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Music in Latin American Culture by John Mendell Schechter Pdf

"Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions provides an in-depth look at the diverse musical cultures of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean in a format geared for the undergraduate. Each chapter, written by an expert in the field, focuses on a specific musical culture while offering students a solid foundation for further study. Authors present the community, its history, common dialect, traditions, and newer forms of musical expression. Music rituals, instrument manufacturing processes, and improvisational techniques all come alive through the authors' own observations of the cultures they have studied firsthand." --

Author : Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste,Pablo Vila
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822354338

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Cumbia! by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste,Pablo Vila Pdf

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes on different styles and meanings from place to place, and even, as the contributors to this collection show, from person to person. Cumbia is a different music among the working classes of northern Mexico, Latin American immigrants in New York City, Andean migrants to Lima, and upper-class Colombians, who now see the music that they once disdained as a source of national prestige. The contributors to this collection look at particular manifestations of cumbia through their disciplinary lenses of musicology, sociology, history, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism. Taken together, their essays highlight how intersecting forms of identity—such as nation, region, class, race, ethnicity, and gender—are negotiated through interaction with the music. Contributors. Cristian Alarcón, Jorge Arévalo Mateus, Leonardo D'Amico, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Alejandro L. Madrid, Kathryn Metz, José Juan Olvera Gudiño, Cathy Ragland, Pablo Semán, Joshua Tucker, Matthew J. Van Hoose, Pablo Vila

Author : Jedrek Mularski
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781621967378

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Music, Politics, and Nationalism In Latin America: Chile During the Cold War Era by Jedrek Mularski Pdf

To date, scholars have paid little attention to the role that music played at political rallies and protests, the political activism of right-wing and left-wing musicians, and the emergence of musical performances as sites of verbal and physical confrontations between Allende supporters and the opposition. This book illuminates a largely unexplored facet of the Cold War era in Latin America by examining linkages among music, politics, and the development of extreme political violence. It traces the development of folk-based popular music against the backdrop of Chile's social and political history, explaining how music played a fundamental role in a national conflict that grew out of deep cultural divisions. Through a combination of textual and musical analysis, archival research, and oral histories, Jedrek Mularski demonstrates that Chilean rightists came to embrace a national identity rooted in Chile's central valley and its huaso ("cowboy") traditions, which groups of well-groomed, singing huasos expressed and propagated through música típica. In contrast, leftists came to embrace an identity that drew on musical traditions from Chile's outlying regions and other Latin American countries, which they expressed and propagated through nueva canción. Conflicts over these notions of Chilenidad ("Chileanness") both reflected and contributed to the political polarization of Chilean society, sparking violent confrontations at musical performances and political events during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mularski offers a powerful example and multifaceted understanding of the fundamental role that music often plays in shaping the contours of political struggles and conflicts throughout the world.This is an important book for Latin American studies, history, musicology/ethnomusicology, and communication.

Author : Donald Thompson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461669876

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Music in Puerto Rico by Donald Thompson Pdf

Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World in the late fifteenth century to twentieth century developments. It explores a multitude of topics, including native instruments, the introduction of music in schools, folk traditions, the legendary salsa, urban pop, and commercial music. The volume also examines musical differences in various regions, including mountains and plains. Documents from historical figures such as Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas and Manuel Alonso have been excerpted and translated. In addition, Music in Puerto Rico explores the various modes of musical expression that have been unique to different geographic regions, including the mountains and the plains. The documented texts also simplify bibliographic search, as many of the anthology's original sources are difficult to locate. Thompson's book provides a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and in which magic was born in the form of the popular salsa. Musicians, musicologists, historians, students of Hispanic culture, and anyone interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Rican life will find Music in Puerto Rico a valuable resource.

Author : Jennifer French,Gisela Heffes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780810142657

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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader by Jennifer French,Gisela Heffes Pdf

The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.

Author : Regina Root
Publisher : Berg 3pl
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Design
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015279369

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Latin American Fashion Reader by Regina Root Pdf

Until now the pivotal role played by dress in this part of the world has been largely overlooked. This is an assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion.

Author : Leila Fern Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042413703

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Selected References in English on Latin American Music by Leila Fern Thompson Pdf

Author : Ana R. Alonso-Minutti,Eduardo Herrera,Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190842772

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Experimentalisms in Practice by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti,Eduardo Herrera,Alejandro L. Madrid Pdf

Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions conceived or perceived as experimental. The conversation takes as starting point the 1960s, a decade that marks a crucial political and epistemological moment for Latin America; militant and committed aesthetic practices resonated with this moment, resulting in a multiplicity of artistic and musical experimental expressions. Experimentalisms in Practice responds to recent efforts to reframe and reconceptualize the study of experimental music in terms of epistemological perspective and geographic scope, while also engaging traditional scholarship. This book contributes to the current conversations about music experimentalism while providing new points of entry to further reevaluate the field.

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177628

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Afro-Latin American Studies by Alejandro de la Fuente,George Reid Andrews Pdf

Examines the full range of humanities and social science scholarship on people of African descent in Latin America.

Author : Daniel Fireside,Dollars & Sense (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 1878585738

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Real World Latin America by Daniel Fireside,Dollars & Sense (Organization) Pdf