Latin American Music Review articles from September 2007

Latin American Music Review archives from September 2007

Music, citizenship, and violence in postdictatorship Brazil.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This essay shows how individuals approaching debates over citizenship, development, civil society, and problems of violence in Brazil evoke music as a kind of audiotopia (from Josh Kun, 2005)--or a sonic space of an imagined country...

Bandidos de Cristo: representations of the power of criminal factions in Rio's proibidao funk.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article draws on ethnographic research and theories of ideology to explore the cultural and rhetorical context of Brazilian proibidao funk, or prohibited rap music, and the usage of this music by the Comando Vermelho criminal...

Colonialidad y poscolonialidad musical en Colombia.(influence of colonialism on Colombian music)
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article examines the construction in Colombia of some colonial imaginaries about music, among which the most important are: the imperative for musical "whitening" and the different visions of music as science. Through a brief...

Historia e historiadores da musica popular no Brasil.(criticisms regarding the works of historians of modern urban music in Brazil)
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article aims to critically examine the group of works by authors such as Vagalume, Alexandre Goncalves Pinto, Orestes Barbosa, Mariza Lira, Edigar de Alencar, Jota Efege, Almirante and Lucio, the "first generation of historians...

Charles W. White. Alejandro Garcia Caturla: A Cuban Composer in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... CHARLES W. WHITE. Alejandro Garcia Caturla: A Cuban Composer in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. ISBN: 0810843811/ 978-0810843813. El compositor cubano Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906-1940) tuvo una vida breve...

Leonardo Acosta. Otra vision de la musica popular cubana.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... LEONARDO ACOSTA. Otra vision de la musica popular cubana. La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 2004. 275 pp., notes, index. Paper $10.00. ISBN: 9591008678/978-9591008671. A recent recipient of the Cuban National Literature Prize, music critic and...

David F. Garcia. Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... DAVID F. GARCIA. Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. 210 pp., musical examples, discography, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-59213-386-4/ 1-59213-386-X. David...

Bryan McCann. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... BRYAN MCCANN. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Ix, 298 pages, sixteen black-and-white photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $84.95; paper $23.95. ISBN:...

Heidi Carolyn Feldman. Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... HEIDI CAROLYN FELDMAN. Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. 306 pp. $50.00. ISBN: 0819568147/978-0819568151 (paper). Afro-Peruvian music has...

Eugene Rodriguez (producer) and Ricardo Braojos (director/editor). Fandango: Searching for the White Monkey (Buscando el Mono Blanco).(Video recording review)
September 22, 2007... EUGENE RODRIGUEZ (PRODUCER) AND RICARDO BRAOJOS (DIRECTOR/EDITOR). Fandango: Searching for the White Monkey (Buscando el Mono Blanco). Video, 65 minutes. 2006. Distributed by Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center, San Pablo, CA. Fandango:...