Latin American Music Review articles from September 2006

Latin American Music Review archives from September 2006

The saga of a song: authorship and ownership in the case of "Guantanamera".
September 22, 2006... This article constitutes a case study in the interaction between a localized form of music-making that emerged from oral tradition on the periphery of the Euro-American commercial mainstream and the dramatically expanded and globalized...

Imagining an Afro-Creole nation: Eugene Mona's music in Martinique of the 1980s.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The 1970s and 1980s marked a period of intensified identity quest for many Martinicans of African ascendance who had recently rediscovered the links that tied them to Africa and the African Diaspora. Ten years earlier many were still holding...

The film music of Alberto Ginastera: an introduction to the sources and their significance.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Alberto Ginastera is recognized as one of the leading musical spokesmen of the Americas. Born in 1916, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he first came to public attention in 1937, with the auspicious premiere of his ballet suite, Panambi During his...

Carlos Guastavino: a re-evaluation of his harmonic language (1).(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... !Viva el atonalismo! !Viva la dodecafonia! !Viva la musica concreta! Eso es una porqueria... son bodrios, son mentiras, son falsedades, son... La musica, la musica autenica es armonia, melodia, y ritmo, perfectamente to-na-les. Es la unica...

Helena Simonett. En Sinaloa naci: Historia de la musica de banda.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... HELENA SIMONETT. En Sinaloa naci: Historia de la musica de banda. Mazatlan: Asociacion de Gestores del Patrimonio Historico y Cultural de Mazatlan, A.C., 2004. Translated by Marisela G. Ricciuti F. and Jose Luis Franco Rodriguez. Xiii, 361 pp.,...

Robin D. Moore. Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... ROBIN D. MOORE. Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. Berkeley: University of California Press; Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, 2006. Xvi, 350 pp., photographs, brief transcriptions, appendix, glossary, bibliography...

Shannon Dudley. Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... SHANNON DUDLEY. Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Global Music Series. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press USA, 2004, 128 pages. Bibliography, photos, glossary, list of resources, companion CD. ISBN:...

Daniel H. Sheehy. Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... DANIEL H. SHEEHY. Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Global Music Series. Oxford University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Book & CD edition. Available in paperback, ISBN: 0195141466. This volume will be most welcomed...

Dale A. Olsen. The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... DALE A. OLSEN. The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Xxvii, 342 pp., illustrations, tables, appendixes, glossary, bibliography,...

Guty Cardenas. Un siglo del ruisenor.(Guty Cardenas: Leyenda o realidad)(Guty Cardenas: Su vida y sus canciones)(Guty Cardenas: Cancionero)(Sound recording review)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... GUTY CARDENAS. Un siglo del ruisenor. Mexico D.F.: Discos Corasoon, 2005 (Corason COV 201). Audio CD, DVD, folleto. BEATRIZ HEREDIA Y RAFAEL DE PAU. Guty Cardenas: Leyenda o realidad. Merida, Yucatan. Ed. privada, 2004. Ilustraciones, notas...

Patricia Caicedo (Soprano) and Eugenia Gassull (Piano). A Mi Ciudad Nativa/To My Native City: Art Songs of Latin America.(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2006... PATRICIA CAICEDO (SOPRANO) AND EUGENIA GASSULL (PIANO). A Mi Ciudad Nativa/To My Native City: Art Songs of Latin America. Vol. 2. Barcelona: Mundo Arts, 2005. In her bio, Colombian-born Patricia Caicedo is described as a "soprano and...