A Latin American Music Reader: Views from the South

by Javier F Leon (Editor), Helena Simonett (Editor), Marina Alonso Bolaños (Contribution by), Gonzalo Camacho Díaz (Contribution by), José Jorge de Carvalho (Contribution by)

Overview

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 include Marina Alonso Bolaños, Gonzalo Camacho Díaz, José Jorge de Carvalho, Claudio F. Díaz, Rodrigo Cantos Savelli Gomes, Juan Pablo González, Rubén López-Cano, Angela Lühning, Jorge Martínez Ulloa, Maria Ignêz Cruz Mello, Julio Mendívil, Carlos Miñana Blasco, Raúl R. Romero, Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros, Carlos Sandroni, Carolina Santamaría-Delgado, Rodrigo Torres Alvarado, and Alejandro Vera.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252081675
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	07/25/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Javier F. León is the director of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and an adjunct professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Helena Simonett is an assistant professor of Latin American studies, adjunct assistant professor of music history and literature, and associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders and the editor of The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!

Table of Contents

Preface ix

One Hundred Years of Latin American Music Scholarship: An Overview Helena Simonett Michael Marcuzzi 1

Part 1 Academic Lineages, Disciplinary Canons, and Historiographies

Introduction Javier F. León 69

1 Music Research in South America Raúl R. Romero 75

2 Between Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Sixty Years of Folk and Vernacular Music Studies in Colombia Carlos Miñana Blasco 94

3 Popular Musicology in Latin America: Synthesis of Its Accomplishments, Problems, and Challenges Juan Pablo González 120

4 The Construction of History: The Charango in the Collective Memory of Mestizo Ayacucho Julio Mendívil 146

5 Decline or Progress? Eighteenth-Century Music and Nineteenth-Century Nationalism Alejandro Vera 161

6 The Bambuco, Hybrid Knowledges, and the Academy: A Historical Analysis of the Persistence of Coloniality in Latin American Musical Studies Carolina Santarnaría-Delgado 194

Part 2 Popular Music, Style, and the Social Construction of Genre

Introduction Javier F. León 215

7 Notes for a Prehistory of Mambo Rubén López-Cano 221

8 "I Got Phrasing": Changes in Samba's Melodic Rhythm, 1917-1933 Carlos Sandroni 250

9 Singing Difference: Violeta Parra and Chilean Song Rodrigo Torres Alvarado 258

10 The Nuevo Cancionero Movement: A Change of Paradigm in Argentine Folklore Claudio F. Díaz 279

11 Timba, Rumba, and "Appropriation from the Inside" Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros 303

12 Gender and Brazilian Popular Music: A Study of Female Bands Rodrigo Cantos Savelli Gomes Maria Ignêz Cruz Mello 318

Part 3 Alternate Genealogies, Marginal Ontologies, and Applied Ethnomusicology

Introduction Javier F. León 331

13 Myth, Music, and Dance: The Chicomexochitl Gonzalo Camacho Díaz 343

14 Indigenous Music and Identity: Musical Spaces of Urban Mapuche Communities Jorge Martínez Ulloa 356

15 Brazilian Ethnomusicology as Participatory Ethnomusicology: Anxieties Regarding Brazilian Musics Angela Lühning 379

16 Applied Ethnomusicology: A Critical History of Indigenous Music Studies in Mexico Marina Alonso Bolaños 393

17 Metamorphosis of Afro-Brazilian Performance Traditions: From Cultural Heritage to the Entertainment Industry José Jorge de Carvalho 406

Contributors 431

Index 441

Editorial Reviews

Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2017

"Bravo! This critical gloss of Latin American music scholarship and compendium of works by Latin American scholars is much needed, long overdue, well-conceived, and well-informed."—Daniel Sheehy, Director and Curator, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

"I love this book. A major contribution to Latin American research—in both ethnomusicology and musicology—as well as related fields such as anthropology, sociology, political science, and gender studies."—Craig Russell, author of From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions

"This book fulfils the aims of the editors and it is an essential reading for those interested in the study of Latin American popular music."—Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music

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