Latin American Music Review articles from September 2002

Latin American Music Review archives from September 2002

White (1) Rapper/Black beats: discovering a race problem in the music of Gabriel o Pensador (2).
September 22, 2002... The contemporary black identity's process is, indeed, a form of social movement, but culture represents, as the black militants say, "the fighting arm of the blacks." (Agier 1995, 255) Introduction From its roots in the West...

Remaking the Brazilian myth of national foundation: Il Guarany.
September 22, 2002... Scholars have long been reluctant to acknowledge the nationalist significance of the opera Il Guarany (1870), by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Gomes. (1) Its triumphal success at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 17 March 1870, repeated...

Technology for the resistance: a Latin American case * .(Ediciones Tacuabe, non-commercial record company, Uruguay)
September 22, 2002... This paper deals with ethics and society. Can musicians and musicologists do something to improve the challenges they face as musicians, or the problems they study and denounce as musicologists? Ediciones Tacuabe, a non-commercial record...

Fiesta, musica y banda: La Semana Santa en Catacaos, Peru.(article in Spanish)
September 22, 2002... Se incendia el cielo. El castillo avisa que Jesucristo acaba de resucitar en la Iglesia San Juan Bautista. La banda de musicos anuncia las cinco de la manana. Las mujeres han abandonado el luto del viernes. Adelante va la Cruz del Santisimo,...

Debating the Past: Music, Memory, and Identity in the Andes. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... ROMERO, RAUL R. Debating the Past: Music, Memory, and Identity in the Andes. Oxford University Press, 2001, 171 pp. 18 halftones, 2 maps, 14 music examples, discographies, glossary. $35, cloth. Inspired by the views on cultural mestizaje...

Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... MENDOZA, ZOILA s. Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, 285 pp. Photos, map, bibliography, index, compact...

Recent studies of Brazilian music: review-essay.(nine books)
September 22, 2002... 1) RUY VIEIRA NERY, ED. A musica no Brasil colonial. Coloquio Internacional, Lisboa, 2000. Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Servico de Musica, 2001, 457 pp. Musical examples, bibliography. 2) CARLOS KATER. Musica Viva e H.J....