Latin American Music Review articles from March 2006

Latin American Music Review archives from March 2006

A selection of the works of Gerard Behague.(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... The tragic death of Gerard Behague came faster than many imagined it would. Former students and friends began to receive word in October 2005 that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing treatment. Some eventually discovered...

A performance and listener-centered approach to musical analysis: some theoretical and methodological factors.(Theoretical or Issue-Oriented Works)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2006... In traditional musicological studies, performance practice has tended to be treated separately from the main musical parameters that retain the analyst's attention. Musicologists have defined performance practice as "the way music is and has...

Diversity and the arts: issues and strategies.(Theoretical or Issue-Oriented Works)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2006... Today, we are on the eve of a new century. The arts and humanities are more essential than ever to the endurance of our democratic values of tolerance, pluralism, and freedom, and to our understanding of where we are and where we need to go. At...

Indianism in Latin American art-music composition of the 1920s to 1940s: case studies from Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.(Art Music Studies)
March 22, 2006... Strictly speaking, the concept of art music is anything but native in Latin America and the Caribbean, if by native we understand a tradition of expressive culture that originated and developed in "New World" territory. Historically, art music...

La problematica de la identidad cultural en la musica culta hispano-caribena.(Art Music Studies)(problem of cultural identity in Hispanic-Caribbean music )
March 22, 2006... La trayectoria de la musica de la llamada tradicion culta en el Caribe de cultura hispanica desde los anos 60 ha tenido bastante dificultad en cuanto a la identidad cultural de la mayoria de los compositores. Con unas poquisimas excepciones, la...

La problematica de la posicion socio-politica del compositor en la musica nueva en Latinoamerica.(socio-political problem of the position of composer in new Latin American music)
March 22, 2006... La vision emocentrica europea del mundo y de la cultura tuvo una influencia muy negativa para el desarrollo de la musica de tradicion culta en Latinoamerica durante el siglo XX. Ademas de las consecuencias nefastas de la colonizacion, esta...

Musica "erudita", "folclorica" e "popular" do Brasil: Interacoes e inferencias para a musicologia e etnomusicologia modernas.(State of Research of Brazilian Music)
March 22, 2006... Nos seus famosos "desafios a musicologia", o professor Joseph Kerman (Contemplating Music, 1985) dedica um capitulo a etnomusicologia e "musicologia cultural" (um termo um tanto infeliz proposto em 1968 por Gilbert Chase numa das conferencias...

Perspectivas atuais na pesquisa musical e estrategias analiticas da Musica Popular Brasileira.
March 22, 2006... E sabido que a musica popular brasileira dos ultimos 40 anos teve repercussao internacional que so se pode comparar coma das mtisicas caribenhas (especialmente Cuba e Jamaica). Desde o aparecimento da Bossa Nova, seguindo-se a tropicalia, a...

Rap, reggae, rock, or samba: the local and the Global in Brazilian popular music (1985-95).(Globalization/Modernization)
March 22, 2006... The notion of the global village and of the globalization of pop culture in the 1980s and 1990s has been perhaps over-taxed; the word "globalization" itself keeps losing its edge and thus needs to be re-sharpened periodically. In tackling the...

Regional and national trends in Afro-Brazilian religious musics: a case of cultural pluralism.
March 22, 2006... One may wonder how music can be considered a reflection of cultural values and of worldviews in general. Ethnomusicology has taught us for some time now that musical styles are frequently the result of specific cultural determinants emanating...

Paul Austerlitz. Jazz Conciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... PAUL AUSTERLITZ. Jazz Conciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005, vii-260 pgs. 6 color plates, 14 black and white photographs, videography, and discography. With Jazz Conciousness, ethnomusicologist...

Jill Lane. Blackface Cuba, 7840-1895.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... JILL LANE. Blackface Cuba, 7840-1895. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 274 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth only. Blackface Cuba is a specialized book, more appropriate for graduate students in various...

Guillermo Carbo Ronderos. Tambora: Baile Cantado en Colombia.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2006... GUILLERMO CARBO RONDEROS. Tambora: Baile cantado en Colombia. 2003. Recorded in Altos del Rosario, Hatillo de Loba, San Martin de Loba, and Tamalameque. Producciones Tambora-YAI Records. One compact disc. Booklet (28 pages) with notes in...

Various Composers. Guitarra de Cristal: Contemporary Cuban Music for the Guitar.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2006... VARIOUS COMPOSERS. Guitarra de Cristal: Contemporary Cuban Music for the Guitar. Anton Machleder, guitar (without catalog number, La Tapa Recordings, 2005). In his second CD recording, the Ecuadorian-born American guitarist Anton Machleder...

Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2006... Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement, compiled, annotated, and produced by Estevan Cesar Azcona and Russell Rodriguez. Smithsonian Folkways Recording, SFW CD 40516. For anyone interested in how music and political movements form...