Latin American Music Review articles from March 2007

Latin American Music Review archives from March 2007

El bambuco, los saberes mestizos y la academia: un analisis historico de la persistencia de la colonialidad en los estudios musicales latinoamericanos (1).
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: A partir de conceptos desarrollados en los estudios poscoloniales latinoamericanos, este articulo cuestiona la base epistemologica sobre la cual se han construido las disciplinas de investigacion musical en America Latina. La...

El chico duro de La Habana agresividad, desafio y cinismo en la timba cubana.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: La timba es un tipo de musica bailable cubana que por medio de determinados mecanismos semioticos y cognitivos, gestiona, reorganiza, construye y semiotiza la agresividad que losjovenes cubanos padecen a causa de sus precarias...

Tango renovacion: on the uses of music history in post-crisis Argentina (1).
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: Long celebrated as a "national" genre in Argentina, tango has not been massively popular there since the late 1950s. Beginning in the late 1990s, however, a renewed interest in the genre began to develop among many Argentines, and...

Celebrity, "crossover," and cubanidad: Celia Cruz as "la Reina de Salsa," 1971-2003.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: When Cuban-born Celia Cruz arrived in New York City in 1962, she faced audiences that dismissed her as irrelevant to their current musical and cultural preferences. The boom in ethnic pride of the 1970s, though, allowed Celia to...

El arpa diatonica paraguaya en la busqueda del tekora: representaciones de paraguayidad.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: Como instrumento adoptado y adaptado en la practica de la musica tradicional y popular del Paraguay, el arpa paraguaya ha asumido desde la mitad del siglo veinte el rol de icono o simbolo nacional "no oficial" de paraguayidad,...

Tomas Marco. El sonido del realismo magico.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... TOMAS MARCO. El sonido del realismo magico. Madrid: Fundacion Autor, 2006. 222 pp. ISBN 84-8048-703-8. Catalogue of works, alphabetical catalogue, discography, bibliography of writings by Marlos Nobre, general bibliography, compact disc. ...

Juan Orrego Salas. 2005. Encuentros, visiones y repasos. Capitulos en el camino de mi musica y mi vida.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... JUAN ORREGO SALAS. 2005. Encuentros, visiones y repasos. Capitulos en el camino de mi musica y mi vida. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Catolica de Chile. ISBN 956-14-0834-1. La proverbial memoria de Juan Orrego Salas (Santiago, 1919) para...

Mariana Martins Villaca. Polifonia tropical: experimentalismo e engajamento na musica popular (Brasil e Cuba, 1967-1972).(Book review)
March 22, 2007... MARIANA MARTINS VILLACA. Polifonia tropical: experimentalismo e engajamento na musica popular (Brasil e Cuba, 1967-1972). Sao Paulo: Humanitas/ FFLCH/USP, 2004. ISBN 85-7506-128-3. En contextos politicos tan disimiles como la Cuba...

Vincenzo Perna. Timba: The Sound of Cuban Crisis.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... VINCENZO PERNA. Timba: The Sound of Cuban Crisis. London and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. 338 pp. Notes, bibliography, discography, index, illustrations, musical examples. $114.95, cloth only. ISBN 0-7546-3941-X. With his recent...

Michael Largey. Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... MICHAEL LARGEY. Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 283 pp. ISBN 978-0226468631. The word nasyon, variously pronounced nachon or nanchon in some parts of Haiti,...

Karen E. Richman. Migration and Vodou.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... KAREN E. RICHMAN. Migration and Vodou. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2005. xxi, 356pp. ISBN 0-8130-2835-3. Photographs, compact disc, glossary, bibliography, index. $65. (Contribution to the series: New World Diasporas, ed. by...

Catana Perez De Cuello, and Rafael Solano. El Merengue: Musica y Baile de la Republica Dominicana.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... CATANA PEREZ DE CUELLO, AND RAFAEL SOLANO. El Merengue: Musica y Baile de la Republica Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Verizon, 2005. 536 pp. ISBN 8845-406-04-3. 500 pesos (Dominican). DARIO TEJEDA, AND RAFAEL EMILIO YUNEN, EDITORS. El Merengue...

CD review: Reinado do Rosario de Itapecerica (MG): Da Festa e dos Misterios.(Video recording review)
March 22, 2007... CD Review: Reinado do Rosario de Itapecerica (MG): Da Festa e dos Misterios (2005), Associacao do Reinado do Rosario de Itapecerica/Viola Correa Producoes Artisticas; Folia de Reis: Tradicao e Fe (2006), Viola Brasileira Show Producoes e...

Communications and announcements.
March 22, 2007... Professor Robert Stevenson has been elected an honorary member of the Directorium of the International Musicological Society as a mark of his magnificent contribution to musicology over the years. This is the first time an honorary member has...