Latin American Music Review articles from March 2000

Latin American Music Review archives from March 2000

Juan A. Orrego-Salas.(Chilean composer)
March 22, 2000... This issue of LAMR is dedicated to Juan A. Orrego-Sales on the occasion of his eightieth birthday (l8 January 1999). Chilean composer Juan Orrego-Salas is undoubtedly one of the most creative personalities in Latin American composition of...

Juan Orrego-Salas a los ochenta anos.
March 22, 2000... Juan Orrego-Salas es una figura clave de la musica chilena, tanto por la cantidad y calidad de sus obras musicales como por su contribucion a multiples rubros del quehacer musical chileno y por el reconocimiento de su labor en el extranjero....

Orrego-Salas in half a century of sound recordings.
March 22, 2000... In addition to celebrating the eightieth birthday of Juan Orrego-Salas, 1999 marks half a century since the first commercial recording of a work by the composer became available: World War II had just ended when Orrego-Salas's Symphony No. 1,...

Boundaries and borders in the study of music in Latin America: a conceptual re-mapping.
March 22, 2000... For this inspiring occasion, * I recently reread most of the inaugural lectures of the doctoral program in musicology presented in 1968 at the City University of New York and subsequently published as Perspectives in Musicology (Brook, Downes,...

Rock with punk with pop with folklore: transformations and renewal in aterciopelados and cafe tacuba.
March 22, 2000... In the last fifteen years Latin America has experienced a musical explosion: the so-called "rock en tu idioma" (rock in your language), or "rock en Espanol." This urban phenomenon is rapidly creating its own space in the popular musical...

"Raise yuh hand, jump up and get on bad!": new developments in soca music in Trinidad (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... People nowadays keep saying that we have changed calypso over the years. I say why not? We had to change, for calypso is a live and living thing. The Mighty Sparrow (2) In the mid 1970s when Lord Shorty was experimenting with a fusion...

"Ja temos um passado": 40 anos do LP Chega de Saudade.
March 22, 2000... Artistas e estudiosos parecem concordar que o ponto de fusao da Bossa Nova, foi o LP Chega de Saudade, o primeiro album de Joao Gilberto (anexo 1, ficha 1), ate entao um violonista de circulos sociais restritos, que circulava pela boemia do Rio...

O Metodo de Pianoforte de Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia. (Reviews).
March 22, 2000... FAGERLANDE, MARCELO. O Metodo de Pianoforte de Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumara, 1995. No decorrer do seculo XX houve urn grande aprofundamento no conhecimento da musica brasileira do periodo colonial e do inicio do...

Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions. (Reviews).
March 22, 2000... SCHECHTER, JOHN M., general editor. Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999. 496 pages. Black-and-white photos, musical transcriptions, glossary, index. Accompanying compact disc also available. ...

The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight. (Reviews).
March 22, 2000... MCDANIEL, LORNA. The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight. Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 1998. 198 pp., bibliography, notes, appendices, index. $39.95 (hardback). The inspiration for this work (as...

The Political Calypso: True Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago, 1962-1987. (Reviews).
March 22, 2000... LOUIS REGIS. The Political Calypso: True Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago, 1962-1987 Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 1999. 276 pp., illustrations, bibliography, appendices. Hardback, $49.95. Paperback, $20.00. It is only in...

South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. (Reviews).
March 22, 2000... OLSEN, DALE A. AND SHEEHY, DANIEL E., EDS. South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 2. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998, xix + 1082 pp. Illustrations, maps,...

Songs and Romances. (Reviews).
March 22, 2000... Songs and Romances. Viklarbo Chamber Ensemble, Anne Marie Ketchum. RCD 1011. (Address for inquiries and ordering: 16943 Mooncrest Drive, Encino, Calif., U.S.A. 91436. Phone: 818/907-5586; fax 818/907-5587; e-mail: Proberco/zen@eart1tlink.net)...