Latin American Music Review articles from March 22 1997

Latin American Music Review archives from March 22 1997

Viewing the ethnomusicological past: Jesuit influences on Araucanian music in colonial Chile (1).
March 22, 1997... In probing issues of representation, ethnographic theorists have come to recognize how even the most current anthropological writings reflect earlier discursive practices of describing and informing. Travel accounts from colonial eras, for...

Decoding oral musical tradition: Yagua women's songs, a case study.
March 22, 1997... "Le travail de l'analyste consiste alors a decomposer et a manipuler le corpus (l'ensemble donne des messages) de diverses manieres, de facon degager les unites, classes d'unites et regles de leurs combinaisons, qui constituent le...

Embedded truths: creativity and context in Spiritual Baptist music.
March 22, 1997... It was my trumpet; and I knew the keys. If I were afraid to blow it, whom could I expect to do it for me? So I made a heaven of noise which is characteristic of my voice and an ingredient of West Indian behavior. George Lamming, The...

Nuevos datos sobre la historia de la musica en Puerto Rico: Pedro Nunez de Ortega, arcabucero y maestro de capila.
March 22, 1997... El grato cometido de estas paginas es demostrar que hubo maestros de capilla en la catedral de San de Puerto Rico ya en la primera mitad del siglo XVII. La perdida de la mayor parte del archivo antiguo de la catedral y la escasez de informacion...

O dinheiro na musica popular brasileira.
March 22, 1997... O samba nasce cantando o dinheiro. A primeira composicao registrada com este nome, o celebre Pelo Telefone lancado em 1917, em uma de suas versoes mencionava a ordem transmitida ao telefone pelo chefe da policia do Rio de Janeiro para que os...

iTango! The Dance, the Song, the Story & Tango and the Political Economy of Passion. (Reviews).
March 22, 1997... COLLIER, SIMON, ARTEMIS COOPER, MARIA SUSANA AZZI, AND RICHARD MARTIN. iTango! The Dance, the Song, the Story. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1995. 208 pp., 250 illustrations, bibliography, discography. SAVIGLIANO, MARTHA E. Tango and the...

Diccionario de Musica en Mexico. (Reviews).
March 22, 1997... PAREYON, GABRIEL. Diccionario de Musica en Mexico. Guadalajara, Mexico, Secretaria de Cultura de Jalisco, 1995. Bibliography, 140 Mexican pesos, 610 pp. Recently, while attending the Primer Eucuentro Internacional de Etnomusicologia in...

Musica latinoamericana y caribena. (Reviews).
March 22, 1997... GOMEZ GARCIA, ZOILA, and VICTORIA ELI RODRIGUEZ. Musica latinoamericana y caribena. Havana: Editorial Pueblo y Educacion, 1995. Bibliography, musical examples, maps, photos, drawings, 438 pp. The stated objective of this volume by two Cuban...

Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou. (Reviews).
March 22, 1997... ELIZABETH MCALISTER, compiler. Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou. Smithsonian Folkways Records SF CD 40464. Notes by Elizabeth McAlister, Gage Averill, Gerdes Fleurant, David Yih, and others. The title of this compact disc...