Latin American Music Review articles from March 2002

Latin American Music Review archives from March 2002

Brazilian sources in Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le Toit: a discussion and a musical analysis. *.(Statistical Data Included)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Introduction Darius Milhaud spent almost two years in Brazil, during the period 1917-18, (1) as Embassy Secretary to Paul Claudel, (2) who was then heading the French diplomatic Legation in Rio de Janeiro. (3) The fascination that he...

Performing Sao Paulo: vanguard representations of a Brazilian cosmopolis.
March 22, 2002... Poete, prends ton luth... --Alfred de Musset (1835) Sou um tupi tangendo um alaude... --Mario de Andrade (1922) In the twentieth century, Sao Paulo experienced successive waves of development schemes, modernization, and...

Colonial capitalism, hegemony, and youth praxis in Puerto Rico: fiel a la vega's Rock en Espanol (1).
March 22, 2002... I. Youth Praxis and Rock en Espanol Initially started in the eighties, Puerto Rican Rock en Espanol did not become one of the most popular genres in the archipelago until the nineties. In the eighties, the number of local bands was small...

Instrumental Rubato and phrase structure in Astor Piazzolla's music.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... In 1954, being in Paris, I had the chance to listen to many modern jazz ensembles, among them Gerry Mulligan's Octet. It was really wonderful to see their enthusiasm while they played: each one's individual pleasure in the improvisation, or the...

Revueltas in San Antonio and Mobile.
March 22, 2002... Little has been written about the thirty-two months composer Silvestre Revueltas spent in San Antonio, Texas, and Mobile, Alabama, from the spring of 1926 to the end of 1928. Much of the reason for this lack of information is that he wrote so...

Los examenes profesionales de Ponce y Revueltas en el Conservatorio Nacional de Mexico.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... En el ano de 1940 tuvieron lugar dos examenes profesionales que, hasta donde he podido establecer, no han sido mencionados hasta ahora por quienes se han ocupado de la vida y la obra de Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948) y de Silvestre Revueltas...

East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... MANUEL, PETER. East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. Xxiii + 252pp., music and text transcriptions, glossary, bibliography,...

Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music: La historia de Lydia Mendoza. (Norteno Tejano Legacies). (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... BROYLES-GONZALEZ, YOLANDA. Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music: La historia de Lydia Mendoza. (Norteno Tejano Legacies). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Xvi + 235pp., 41 illustrations, appendix, compact disc. Lydia Mendoza, known...

Juventino Rosas: His Life, His Work, His Time. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... BRENNER, HELMUT. Juventino Rosas: His Life, His Work, His Time. Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music. No. 32. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2000. Xx + 192pp., ils., incluye bibliografia, catalogo y discografia comentadas....

En la esencia de los estilos y otros ensayos. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... ORBON, JULIAN. En la esencia de los estilos y otros ensayos. Madrid: Editorial Colibri, 2000. 165 pp., photos, music. Alejo Carpentier said "Julian Orb6n is the most unique and promising figure of the new Cuban school" when the composer was...

Communications and announcements.(Obituary)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Jose Antonio Alcaraz (1938-2001) Jose Antonio Alcaraz, a dear member of the LAMR Editorial Advisory Board for many years, passed away in Mexico City on 1 October 2001. A well-known music critic, stage director, and composer, Alcaraz studied...