A Latin American music reader
Subtitle: views from the south
By: edited by Javier F. León and Helena Simonett
Contributors: Society for Ethnomusicology
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780252040214; 9780252081675
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ethnomusicology; Folk music; History and criticism; Applied ethnomusicology
Other titles: Views from the south
Description: Collection of scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Latin American music, written by Latin American authors, published between 1986 and 2011, and now translated into English from the original Spanish or Portuguese. Each article has been chosen as representative, outstanding, or influential in some way to the field of Latin American musicology. The editors have also provided a substantial introduction to survey and contextualize the history of Latin American ethnomusicology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: One hundred years of Latin American music scholarship : an overview -- Helena Simonett (with Michael Marcuzzi); title: Academic lineages, disciplinary canons, and historiographies. -- Introduction / -- Javier F. León; title: Music research in South America  -- Raúl R. Romero; title: Between folklore and ethnomusicology : sixty years of folk and vernacular music studies in Colombia  -- Carlos Miñana Blasco; title: Popular musicology in Latin America : synthesis of its accomplishments, problems, and challenges  -- Juan Pablo González; title: The construction of history : the charango in the collective memory of mestizo Ayacucho  -- Julio Mendívil; title: Decline or progress? : eighteenth-century music and nineteenth-century nationalism  -- Alejandro Vera; title: The bambuco, hybrid knowledges, and the academy : a historical analysis of the persistence of coloniality in Latin American musical studies -- Carolina Santamaría-Delgado; title: Popular music, style, and the social construction of genre. -- Introduction / -- Javier F. León; title: Notes for a prehistory of mambo  -- Rubén López-Cano; title: "I got phrasing" : changes in samba's melodic rhythm, 1917-1933  -- Carlos Sandroni; title: Singing difference : Violeta Parra and Chilean song  -- Rodrigo Torres Alvardo; title: The nuevo cancionero movement : a change of paradigm in Argentine folklore  -- Claudio F. Díaz; title: Timba, rumba, and "appropriation from the inside"  -- Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros; title: Gender and Brazilian popular music : a study of female bands -- Rodrigo Cantos Savelli Gomes,-- Maria Ignêz Cruz Mello; title: Alternate genealogies, marginal ontologies, and applied ethnomusicology. -- Introduction / -- Javier F. León; title: Myth, music, and dance : the Chicomexochitl  -- Gonzalo Camacho Díaz; title: Indigenous music and identity : musical spaces of urban Mapuche communities  -- Jorge Martínez Ulloa; title: Brazilian ethnomusicology as participatory ethnomusicology : anxieties regarding Brazilian musics  -- Angela Lühning; title: Applied ethnomusicology : a critical history of indigenous music studies in Mexico  -- Marina Alonso Bolaños; title: Metamorphosis of Afro-Brazilian performance traditions : from cultural heritage to the entertainment industry -- José Jorge de Carvalho.