Latin American Music Reader

Javier F. León is the director of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and an adjunct professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Helena Simonett is an assistant professor of Latin American studies, adjunct assistant professor of music history and literature, and associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders and the editor of The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!

Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2017— Society for Ethnomusicology

• CoverTitle pageContentsPrefaceOne Hundred Years of Latin American Music Scholarship: An Overview - Helena Simonett (and Michael Marcuzzi)Part One. Academic Lineages, Disciplinary Canons, and Historiographies1. Music Research in South America2. Between Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Sixty Years of Folk and Vernacular Music Studies in Colombia3.Popular Musicology in Latin America: Synthesis of Its Accomplishments, Problems, and Challenges4. The Construction of History: The Charango in the Collective Memory of Mestizo Ayacucho5. Decline or Progress? Eighteenth-Century Music and Nineteenth-Century Nationalism6. The Bambuco, Hybrid Knowledges, and the Academy: A Historical Analysis of the Persistence of Coloniality in Latin America Musical StudiesPart Two. Popular Music, Style, and the Social Construction of Genre7. Notes for a Prehistory of Mambo8. "I Got Phrasing": Changes in Samba's Melodic Rhythm, 1917–19339. Singing Difference: Violeta Parra and Chilean Song10. The Nuevo Cancionero Movement: A Change of Paradigm in Argentine Folklore11. Timba, Rumba, and "Appropriation from the Inside"12. Gender and Brazilian Popular Music: A Study of Female BandsPart Three. Alternate Genealogies, Marginal Ontologies, and Applied Ethnomusicology Javier F. Le13. Myth, Music, and Dance: The Chicomexochitl14. Indigenous Music and Identity: Musical Spaces of Urban Mapuche Communities15.Brazilian Ethnomusicology as Participatory Ethnomusicology: Anxieties Regarding Brazilian Musics16. Applied Ethnomusicology: A Critical History of Indigenous Music Studies in Mexico17. Metamorphosis of Afro-Brazilian Performance Traditions: From Cultural Heritage to the Entertainment IndustryContributorsIndex