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A Latin American Music Reader

A Latin American Music Reader

Views from the South

Edited by Javier F León and Helena Simonett

Contributions by 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

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

4 black and white photographs, 4 line drawings, 2 charts, 23 music examples, 2 tables

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9780252098437
Published: July 2016

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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.

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Title page

Contents

Preface

One Hundred Years of Latin American Music Scholarship: An Overview - Helena Simonett (and Michael Marcuzzi)

Part One. Academic Lineages, Disciplinary Canons, and Historiographies

1. Music Research in South America

2. Between Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Sixty Years of Folk and Vernacular Music Studies in Colombia

3.Popular Musicology in Latin America: Synthesis of Its Accomplishments, Problems, and Challenges

4. The Construction of History: The Charango in the Collective Memory of Mestizo Ayacucho

5. Decline or Progress? Eighteenth-Century Music and Nineteenth-Century Nationalism

6. The Bambuco, Hybrid Knowledges, and the Academy: A Historical Analysis of the Persistence of Coloniality in Latin America Musical Studies

Part Two. Popular Music, Style, and the Social Construction of Genre

7. Notes for a Prehistory of Mambo

8. “I Got Phrasing”: Changes in Samba’s Melodic Rhythm, 1917–1933

9. Singing Difference: Violeta Parra and Chilean Song

10. The Nuevo Cancionero Movement: A Change of Paradigm in Argentine Folklore

11. Timba, Rumba, and “Appropriation from the Inside”

12. Gender and Brazilian Popular Music: A Study of Female Bands

Part Three. Alternate Genealogies, Marginal Ontologies, and Applied Ethnomusicology Javier F. Le

13. Myth, Music, and Dance: The Chicomexochitl

14. Indigenous Music and Identity: Musical Spaces of Urban Mapuche Communities

15.Brazilian Ethnomusicology as Participatory Ethnomusicology: Anxieties Regarding Brazilian Musics

16. Applied Ethnomusicology: A Critical History of Indigenous Music Studies in Mexico

17. Metamorphosis of Afro-Brazilian Performance Traditions: From Cultural Heritage to the Entertainment Industry

Contributors

Index

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!

Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2017
— Society for Ethnomusicology