Latin American Music Review articles from March 2005

Latin American Music Review archives from March 2005

The Oaxaca Cathedral examen de oposicion: the quest for a modern style.
March 22, 2005... When a vacancy occurred in the chapelmastership of Mexican cathedrals during the colonial period, it was customary to open a competition, an examen de oposicion, inviting composers from near and far to submit their works. The candidates would...

Borderland music (1) as symbolic forms of nationalisms: the best of the Texas Tornados, partners, and !Viva Luckenbach!
March 22, 2005... In nationalism narratives females frequently function to justify, support, and frame the exploits of males, who "embody the essential virtues" of the national community. (2) Authors often script the female character into the patriarchal...

Making it there: Piazzolla's New York concerts (1).
March 22, 2005... With Astor Piazzolla the question was never one of cultural identity; his music was always synonymous with the bandoneon, tango, Lunfardo, the world of the porteno and everything typical of Buenos Aires. (2) Billed as "the Argentine boy wonder...

Stravinsky y la constelacion ideologica argentina en 1936 (1).
March 22, 2005... Igor Stravinsky visita la Argentina en 1936. Permanece casi un rues, durante el cual ofrece innumerables conciertos como director e interprete al piano de sus obras en Buenos Aires y en Rosario, junto a su hijo Sulima. Desde antes de su...

Film music and community development in rural Puerto Rico: the DIVEDCO program (1948-91).
March 22, 2005... The creation of the Division of Community Education was one of the more imaginative initiatives of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico as it came into absolute legislative and executive power following the 1948 general elections. The...

Lynn A. Meisch. Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... LYNN A. MEISCH. Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002, vii-314 pgs. Anthropologist Lynn A. Meisch brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective into a...

Michelle Bigenho. Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... MICHELLE BIGENHO. Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, xiii-289 pp. Photographs, musical examples, notes, glossary, bibliography, discography, index. Benedict Anderson in his...

Ernesto Donas Y Denise Milstein. Lenguajes, imaginarios y mediaciones en la cancion popular montevideana (1962-99).(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... ERNESTO DONAS Y DENISE MILSTEIN. Lenguajes, imaginarios y mediaciones en la cancion popular montevideana (1962-99). Nordan/Comunidad: Montevideo, 2004, 142 pp. El libro Lenguajes, imaginarios y mediaciones en la cancion popular...

The Piano Works of Aurelio de la Vega.(Sound Recording Review)
March 22, 2005... The Piano Works of Aurelio de la Vega. Martha Marchena, piano. Musicians Showcase 1088 (for inquiries and ordering: www.msrcd.com; e-mail: info@msrcd.com; phone: 914-592-9431). Charles Darwin once wrote, "music was known and understood...

O Laboratorio de Etnomusicologia da Escola de Musica da UFRJ apresenta.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Musica em Debate III de 18 de novembro a 16 de dezembro de 2004 A serie "Musica em Debate", em sua terceira edicao, propee quatro temas intersticios fundamentalmente ligados a discussos no ambito das pesquisas realizadas pelo Laboratorio de...

Congreso Venezolano de Musicologia 9004, em homenaje al musicologo Walter Guido y al pianista y compositor Carlos Duarte.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Organizado por la Sociedad Venezolana de Musicologia y otras instituciones musicales caraquenas, el congreso tuvo lugar del 7 al 10 de diciembre del 9004. El cronograma de actividades tuvo la participacion de muchos investigadores venezolanos...

XIII Festival Latinoamericano de Musica.(Communications and Announcements)
March 22, 2005... El XIII Festival Latinoamericano de Musica se celebro en Caracas del 12 al 21 de noviembre del 2004 en la Sala Jose Felix Ribas del Teatro Teresa Carreno, el Teatro Municipal de Caracas, el Centro Cultural Corp Group, el Aula Magna y el...

III Congreso Chileno de Musicologia.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Organizado por la Sociedad Chilena de Musicologia, este congreso tuvo lugar en La Serena, Chile, del 11 a 15 de enero del 2005. El tema central del congreso fue "Musica, migracion y exilio," principalmente en Chile y Latinoamerica, considerando...

New book by Jorge Antunes.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Brazilian composer Jorge Antunes, Professor of composition at the Universidade de Brasilia, announces that his new book, titled Sons novos para o piano, a harpa e o violao (New sounds for the piano, the harp, and the guitar), and prefaced by...

VI Congreso de la Rama Latinoamericana de la Asociacion Internacional para el Estudio de la Musica Popular, IASPMAL, Buenos Aires, 23 al 27 de agosto de 2005.(Communications and Announcements)
March 22, 2005... Tema central: "Musica popular, exclusion/inclusion social y subjetividad en America Latina" En el marco del VI Congreso se proponen cuatro areas tematicas para el envio de ponencias: 1. A partir del lema convocante: "Musica popular,...

La fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie wishes to announce the opening of its Latin American Electroacoustic Music Archive.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... The archive includes approximately 2,000 digital audio files (over 1,600 compositions). Most of these works are not available in commercial editions and many of them were not heard again after they were premiered, in some cases during the 1960s...