Latin American Music Review articles from September 2005

Latin American Music Review archives from September 2005

A tribute to Gerard Behague.(professor)(Obituary)
September 22, 2005... I mourn the passing of my teacher, Gerard Behague, just now on June 13. He was a guiding force in my life for thirty years, from 1974 to 2005, the year of his untimely departure. This tribute will address Professor Behague's extraordinary...

Recordando a Isabel Aretz (13/04/1909-01/06/2005) (1).(Biography)
September 22, 2005... Luis Felipe Ramon y Rivera e Isabel Aretz, Buenos Aires, 1994 (2) 1931-3 Egresa del Conservatorio Nacional de Musica de Buenos Aires (Argentina) como pianista y compositora 1935 Obtiene el Primer premio Municipal de Composicion en...

[??]De que color es el oro? Race, environment, and the history of Cuban national music, 1898-1958 *.(Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes)
September 22, 2005... Modern Cuban identity is intimately tied to the perception that a poor Antillean "island of shacks" (isla de bohios) became rich through its music. (1) During the twentieth century, many writers have identified Cuba's national singularity with...

Encuentros: dances of the Inti Raymi in Cotacachi, Ecuador.
September 22, 2005... A human wall, fifteen men across in dozens of rows deep, advances in a slow trot toward the main square of Cotacachi, La Plaza de la Matriz They are the San Juan dancers of the upper- and lower-moiety coalitions of local indigenous communities...

Carrasco or Mathias? Plagiarism and corruption in an eighteenth-century examen de oposicion from the Oaxaca Cathedral.
September 22, 2005... Upon the death of the great Oaxaca chapelmaster Matheo Vallados on 14 May 1707, the Cabildo of the Oaxaca Cathedral named the sochantre, Luis Jose Montes de Oca, as interim chapelmaster, (1) and within a few months called a competition--an...

The Making of a social history of popular music in Chile: problems, methods, and results.
September 22, 2005... Until popular music studies took hold twenty years ago, it was not considered a legitimate field of studies in musicology. Furthermore, the strong art music orientation of conservatories and musicology departments in Latin America did not at...

El compositor espanol Hernando Franco (1532-85) antes de su llegada a Mexico: trayectoria profesional en Portugal, Santo Domingo, Cuba y Guatemala (1).
September 22, 2005... Introduccion En este articulo me propongo revisar y completar la biografia del compositor espanol Hernando Franco (1532-85), a la luz de documentos ineditos conservados en el Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla. (2) Las fuentes manejadas...

Ritual y espectaculo en la musica indigena: El caso de los jovenes roba del Chaco argentino.
September 22, 2005... Introduccion (1) Entre los grupos aborigenes toba del Chaco argentino (2), las celebraciones de las iglesias del Evangelio constituyen hoy los nicos rituales colectivos vigentes. Por ello, gran parte de sus practicas musicales actualmente...

Sherzer, Joel, Comp., Ed., and Trans. Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... SHERZER, JOEL, COMP., ED., AND TRANS. Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians. Illustrations by Olokwagdi de Akwanusadup. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003, 248 pp. ISBN 0-292-70227-2 (cloth: alk. paper); ISBN 0-292-70237-X...

Aparicio, Frances R., and Candida F. Jaquez, Eds. Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Vol. I.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... APARICIO, FRANCES R., AND CANDIDA F. JAQUEZ, EDS. Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 216 pp. Illustrations, photos, transcription excerpts, index. ISBN...

McAlister, Elizabeth A. Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora.(Book review)
September 22, 2005... MCALISTER, ELIZABETH A. Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002, 259 pp. Appendix, glossary, end notes, bibliography, discography, index, compact-disc. ISBN:...

Tacuchian, Ricardo. Musica para piano.(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2005... TACUCHIAN, RICARDO. Musica para piano. With piano interpretations by Jose Eduardo Martins, Max Lifchitz, Anne Kaasa, Ingrid Barancoski, Sergio Monteiro, and Regina Martins. ABM Digital. CD. Few Brazilian composers have received as much...

Communications and announcements.(Alejandro L. Madrid)
September 22, 2005... Robin Moore Named Editor of Latin American Music Review Established in 1980 by Professor Gerard Behague, the LAMR has dedicated itself to the dissemination of information about all forms of Latin American music from pre-conquest indigenous...