Latin American Music Review articles from September 22 1999

Latin American Music Review archives from September 22 1999

Conference UCLA May 99. (Communications and Announcements).
September 22, 1999... An interdisciplinary conference on "Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present" was held at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), May 28-30, 1999. Organized by Professor Steven Loza, nine panels discussed...

New textbook on Latin American music. (Communications and Announcements).
September 22, 1999... Entitled Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions (Schirmer Books, 1999) and edited by John M. Schechter, this textbook consists of nine chapters dealing with various folk music traditions from Mexico, Central America, Haiti and...

Bibliografia Musical Brasileira project. (Communications and Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Academia Brasileira de Musica began in 1998 a systematic and comprehensive project entitled Brazilian Music Bibliography, under the supervision of Mercedes Reis Pequeno. All entries are from a database that will be easily accessible through...

Recordings of Villa-Lobos symphonies. (Communications and Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Symphony Orchestra of the German Radio in Stuttgart has begun the recording of all symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos. Under the direction of American conductor Carl St. Clair, the recordings are to be released in a series of compact discs by...

Premio de Musicologia Casa de las Americas, 1999. (Communications and Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... La septima edicion del Premio de Musicologia Casa de las Americas se convoco para los dias 25 a 29 de octubre de 1999 en La Habana. Participan autores latinoamericanos y caribenos con libros ineditos sobre bistoriograffa musical, interpretacion...

ANPPOM 1999 in Salvador, Bahia. (Communications and Announcements).
September 22, 1999... The twelfth meetings of ANPPOM (Associacao Nacional de Pesquisa e Pos-Graduacao em Musica) have been scheduled for October 24-26, 1999, at the Federal University of Bahia, em Salvador. Among various themes, the meetings will focus on the...

New edition of Encyclopedia of Brazilian music. (Communications and Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The second edition of the Enciclopedia da Musica Brasileira: popular, erudita e folclorica, published in 1998 by the Sao Paulo Art Editora and PubliFolha, is still under the editorship of Marcos Antonio Marcondes. This new edition after...

Dictionary of Black Music Composers. (Communications and Announcements).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Center for Black Music Research has recently published the International Dictionary of Black Music Composers, edited by the center's director, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. In two volumes, the compilation includes 185 entries, focusing on composers...

Errata.
September 22, 1999... The title of Miguel Angel Garcia's article in Volume 19 no. 2 (pp. 203-17) should be corrected to read "Conversion religiosa y cambio musical." In addition, on page 272, the second sentence in the biographical data on Mr. Garcia should be...

Cuando sali de La Habana, 1898-1997. Cien anos de musica cubana por el mundo. (Reviews).
September 22, 1999... DIAZ AYALA, CRISTOBAL. Cuando sali de La Habana, 1898-1997. Cien anos de musica cubana por el mundo. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Fundacion Musicalia, 1998, 263 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, discography, onomastic index, accompanying...

Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba. (Reviews).
September 22, 1999... DANIEL, YVONNE. Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995, 196 pp. Appendix: Labanotation, notes, bibliography, index. El libro de Ivonne Daniel nos brinda una...

A History of the Portuguese Fado. (Reviews).
September 22, 1999... VERNON, PAUL. A History of the Portuguese Fado. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1998. xxii, 114 pp., chronology, photographs, glossary and gazetteer, bibliography, discography, index, CD. Shawan Castelo Branco Fado is an urban...

Directory of Latin American and Caribbean music theses and dissertations (1992-1998).(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... As in the past, LAMR publishes a directory of Latin American and Caribbean music theses and dissertations every few years as a source of information to our readers. It only contains those doctoral and master theses submitted to (or in progress...

Representaciones sobre el origen del chamame entre migrantes correntinos residentes en Buenos Aires: imaginario, musica e identidad (1).
September 22, 1999... Introduction El objetivo de este trabajo (2) es analizar algunos aspectos de las representaciones en torno al origen del chamame que tienen lugar entre migrantes correntinos (3) residentes en Buenos Aires. Asi como tambien, establecer una...

Mario De Andrade e o lundu: uma apresentacao.
September 22, 1999... Em 1944 a Revista Brasileira de Musica trouxe, em seu decimo volume, o ultimo ensaio sobre musica escrito por Mario de Andrade. Tratava-se de assunto que ele perseguia, com paciencia, desde a decada de 20, colecionando notas bibliograficas e...

Camargo Guarnieri e Mario De Andrade.
September 22, 1999... No artigo "In memoriam de Camargo Guarnieri", Jose Eduardo Martins lembra: (1) Quando, em 1978..., disse ter sido Mario de Andrade nocivo a musica brasileira, referindo-me, na verdade, A nao-ventilacao no Brasil, durante decadas, das...

Peruvian musical scholarship and the construction of an academic other.
September 22, 1999... Since the early development of ethnomusicology in the West, there have been a number of different approaches which are thought to reflect the field's interdisciplinary nature. In some cases, these differences have been attributed to the...

From the editor.
September 22, 1999... With the current issue of LAMR (vol. 20, no. 2), we are celebrating twenty years of publication. Considering the difficulties of the early 1980s in establishing a new scholarly journal, LAMR has come of age and is now well known in...

The memory of Americo Paredes.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 22, 1999... This issue of LAMR is dedicated to the memory of Americo Paredes. (3 September 1915-5 May 1999) Americo Paredes, long-time colleague and friend, noted Mexican-American folkorist and scholar of international reputation, passed away in...