Latin American Music Review articles from September 2003

Latin American Music Review archives from September 2003

Nationalism and Latin American music: selected case studies and theoretical considerations.
September 22, 2003... In discussing the criollo-based independence movements in the Americas during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Benedict Anderson notes that these cases are not easily explained by the usual means of national linguistic and...

Migration and worldview in salsa music.
September 22, 2003... Everything Is Not Everything about Justice In his All-American Music, Composition in the Late Twentieth Century, John Rockwell, former music critic of the New York Times, devotes only one of twenty chapters to a Latino--the Nuyorican Eddie...

An anatomy of creolization: Curacao and the Antillean waltz *.
September 22, 2003... "Creolization is a miracle begging for analysis." --Michel-Rolph Trouillot The Antillean waltz denotes a genre enjoyed among the islanders of the Netherlands Antilles. While persons from Aruba and Bonaire share nominal claim, the...

Musica y radio en Mendoza, Argentina: la practica musical de Tito Francia.
September 22, 2003... Fioravante Francia, conocido como Tito Francia, es uno de los referentes mas importantes de la musica popular de Mendoza, ciudad capital de una de las provincias del centro oeste argentino. Guitarrista virtuoso, acompano a innumerables...

Navigating ideologies in "in-between" cultures: signifying practices in Nor-tec music (1).(norteno-techno music from Tijuana, Mexico)
September 22, 2003... When a friend invited me on 25 March 2000 to attend a concert of techno music at Mexico City's Zocalo, I was a little puzzled and did not know what to expect. A rave organized by the government of Mexico City and presented in the heart of the...

Nascimento de Lima, Luiz Fernando. Live Samba: Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian "Pagode".(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Acta semiotica Fennica XI. Helsinki: International Semiotics Institute, 2001. Discography, bibliographic references, index, musical examples, 388 pp. A most significant event in the recent history of Brazilian popular music is...

Olsen, Dale A. Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2002. Illustrations, audio examples (on-line), glossary, notes, bibliography, 291 pp. The musics of pre-Columbian civilizations have fascinated musical scholars since the nineteenth century....

Villa-Lobos, Heitor. String Quartets, 6 vols.(Sound Recording Review)
September 22, 2003... Cuarteto Latinoamericano. --Volume 1, Quartets Nos. 6, 1, 17 (CD/DOR-90205, Dorian Recordings, 1995) --Volume 2, Quartets Nos. 3, 8, 14 (CD/DOR-90220, Dorian Recordings, 1996) --Volume 3, Quartets Nos. 7, 15 (CD/DOR-90246, Dorian...

III Coloquio Internacional de Musicologia.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Maria Elena Vinueza, the director of the Music Department of the Cuban Casa de las Americas announced the realization of the International Colloquium in Havana, 27-31 October 2003. The Colloquium was meant for musicologists, musicians,...

Songs across the Americas festivals.(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Organized by Songs Unlimited, Inc. from Arkansas, these festivals are meant to bring together scholars, composers, performers, and listeners in various living cultural history settings in the Western Hemisphere to promote the art of American...

XIV Congresso da ANPPOM.(Brazilian Association of Graduate Study and Research in Music)(Communications and Announcements)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... ANPPOM is the Brazilian Association of Graduate Study and Research in Music, founded in the late 1980s. This Congress took place in Porto Alegre, 18-21 August, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and involved numerous topics,...