Latin American Music Review articles

Recent articles from Latin American Music Review

Brazil in France, 1922: an anthropological study of the congenital international nexus of popular music.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... ABSTRACT: In 1922, the famous musical ensemble from Rio de Janeiro, Os Batutas, spent six months in Paris, playing in night clubs and parties. The group was under the direction of Pixinguinha and included Donga, composer of "Pelo Telefone's" music. The trip is a little-known episode in the...

Musica e Fe: A cena religiosa no mercado fonografico brasileiro.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... RESUMO: O presente texto busca discutir o segmento fonografico da musica religiosa no Brasil em suas duas principais vertentes, vinculadas respectivamente as tradicies catolica e protestante. O texto oferece um breve historico de ambas, bem como a descricoo de suas principais gravadocas e...

M. Camargo Guarnieri and the influence of Mario de Andrade's modernism.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Modernism in Brazilian art music called for a convergence of separate emphases: 1) renovation of compositional practices through the adaptation of current techniques; and 2) incorporation of native elements to better align art music with the hybrid Brazilian heritage. The music of M. Camargo...

Cultural geographies of Afro-Brazilian symbolic practice: tradition and change in Maracatu de Nacao (Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil).(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Maracatu de Nacao, A Tradition Reinvigorated The main carnival of Pernambuco, Brazil, which takes place in the large coastal city of Recife and the nearby town of Olinda, has received little attention from non-Brazilian scholars--either as an annual event or as a locus of cultural...

Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... TAMARA ELENA LIVINGSTON-ISENHOUR and THOMAS GEORGE CARACAS GARCIA. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music. 2005. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Brazilian choro shares much with its more markedly Afro-Brazilian relative samba, which eclipses the...