Latin American Music Review articles from March 2003

Latin American Music Review archives from March 2003

This issue of LAMR is dedicated to the memory of Jose Maria Neves.
March 22, 2003... (20 August 1943-27 November 2002) Brazilian musicologist, teacher, and conductor Jose Maria Neves passed away in Rio de Janeiro on 27 November 2002 after battling a lymphatic cancer. As a member of LAMR's Editorial Board, he spared no...

Music in the convents and monasteries of colonial Cuzco.
March 22, 2003... In 1673 three Indian maestros cantores were hired to provide their musical services to the monastery of San Juan de Dios in Cuzco. They agreed to perform at five weekly masses and a range of other annual feasts such as the Fridays in Lent, Holy...

Carlos Guastavino: the intersection of musica culta and musica popular in Argentine song.
March 22, 2003... Introduction In the history of Argentine art music, few composers have been able to blend the worlds of musica culta and musica popular more successfully than Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000). More than simply borrowing elements of popular...

Musica popular de masas, de medios, urbana o mesomusica venezolana.
March 22, 2003... Desde los dias de estudiante en la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la Universidad Catolica Argentina, recordamos con firmeza aquellas clases del profesor de folklore Bruno Jacovella, cuando al hablar de los diferentes tipos de musica,...

Musica e fala: o discurso verbal em um espetaculo de samba.
March 22, 2003... Introducao Em que pese a autonomia que pode ser atribuida aos diversos sistemas de expressao, como a musica e a linguagem verbal, a pratica cultural os coloca constantemente em contato uns com os outros. Na situacao especifica de...

Allegro ma non danzante: o nacional-popular em "O Banquete" de Mario de Andrade (1).
March 22, 2003... Em 1941, ano do seu retomo cidade de Sao Paulo, depois da experiencia no Distrito Federal, Mario de Andrade escreveu numa carta Paulo Duarte: Acusam que estou bebendo demais. Porem, enquanto eu nao me achar nesta cidadezinha, coma pegar o...

Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... MCALISTER, ELIZABETH. Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2002. 259 pp., xx, photographs, chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, compact...

Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in South-East Brazil. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... REILY, SUZEL ANA. Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in South-East Brazil. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Xix + 266 pp., preface, key to musical transcriptions, music and text...

Mujeres en la creacion musical de Mexico. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... MEIEROVICH, CLARA. Mujeres en la creacion musical de Mexico. Mexico, D.F.: CONACULTA/Cuadernos de Pauta, 2001. 369 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN: 970-18-5173-0. $200 (Mex). Creative, talented women in the arts in Mexico have...

Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... HAGEDORN, KATHERINE J. Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001, 295 pp., illustrations, glossary, bibliography, discography, filmography, index, compact disc. ...

Ao encontro da palavra cantada. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... MATOS, CLAUDIA N., ELIZABETH TRAVASSOS E FERNANDA T. MEDEIROS, eds., Ao encontro da palavra cantada. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2001. 314 pp. O livro Ao encontro da palavra cantada reune textos apresentados no I Encontro de Estudos da...

Calypso Awakening (2000, SFW CD 40453) and Lord Invader: Calypso in New York. (Reviews).(Sound Recording Review)
March 22, 2003... Calypso Awakening (2000, SFW CD 40453) and Lord Invader: Calypso in New York (2000, SFW CD 40454), Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. These collections of recordings from the 1940s and 1950s are culled from two different Folkways collections....