Latin American Music Review Recent Issues

Articles

• Actitud decolonial, linajes y saberes otros en la música y las letras de Los Jaivas

by Israel Holas Allimant y Sergio Holas

• Álbumes musicales de mujeres, marcas de uso y escena cultural

by Laura Jordán González y Fernanda Vera Malhue

• La red Musical atlántica: Circulación de instrumentos musicales entre España y Nueva Granda (1778–1804)

by Oriol Brugarolas y Lluís Bertran

Reviews

• Música ritual de un pueblo huave, by Roberto Campos Velázquez

Reviewed by Robert L. Kendrick

• Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media, by K. E. Goldschmitt

Reviewed by Martha Tupinambá de Ulhoa

• The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History, by Pablo Palomino

Reviewed by Daniel F. Castro Pantoja

• Heavy Metal Music in Argentina: In Black We Are Seen, by Emiliano Scaricaciottoli, Nelson Varas-Díaz, and Daniel Nevárez Araújo

Reviewed by Guillermo A. Luppi

• Marasa Twa (three-album triology). Water Prayers for Bass Clarinet, by Dr. Merengue, and The Vodou Horn, by Paul Austerlitz

Reviewed by Rebecca D. Sager

• Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora,  by Juan Eduardo Wolf

Reviewed by Laura Jordán González

Articles

• José Ángel Lamas (1775-1814) y el arte útil de Antiguo Régimen en Venezuela

by David Coifman Michailos

• Revisitando a Robert Stevenson: Entre cartas, viajes, y la musiología latinoamericana del siglo XX

by Laura Fahrenkrog

• Carlos Chávez in Mabel Dodge Luhan’s “Whirling around Mexico”

by Christina Taylor Gibson

• Cariocas de New Orleans: Brazilian Interpretations of North American Jazz

by Rafael Do Nascimento Cesar

Reviews

• Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles (CD), by Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles

Reviewed by Monica Fogelquist

• Thinking about Music from Latin America: Issues and Questions, by Juan Pablo González

Reviewed by Amanda Minks

• Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires, by Victoria Fortuna

Reviewed by Wanda Balbé and Camila Losada

• Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia in Brazilian Gangster Funk, by Paul Sneed

Reviewed by Derek Pardue

• Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño, by Alex E. Chávez

Reviewed by Kevin Parme

• Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America, Edited by William H. Beezley

Reviewed by Viviana Parody

Articles

• Escribir, componer, improvisar: Prácticar creativas desde la perspectiva de jóvenes raperos de La Plata

by Ana Abrina Mora

• Whistling, Gender, and the Aesthetic Turn in Mexico City

by Anthony W. Rasmussen

• Back to the Neighborhood: Musical Contributions to the Study of Locality in latin American Cities

by Christian Spencer-Espinosa

• Zapateado en sones de Xantolo y sones Huastecos: Sensacíon fiscamente encarnada

by Raquel Paraiso y Román Güemes Jiménez

Reviews

• The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy, by Tania da Costa Garcia

Reviewed by J. Ryan Bodiford

• Bandas de música: Contextos interpretativos y repertorios, Edited by Nicolás Rincón Rodríguez and David Ferreiro Carballo

Reviewed by Ketty Wong

• Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Pablo Vila

Reviewed by Jacqueline Avila

• A todas las imágenes del mundo: Antología del canto a lo divino, by Daniel González y Danilo Petorvich (investigación y recopilación)

Reviewed by Ignacio Ramos Rodillo

• Música popular y sociedad en el Perú contemporáneo, Edited by Raúl Renato Romero

Reviewed by Jonathan Ritter

• ¿Músico pagado toca mal son? Unas miradas hacia el mercado laboral del son jarocho, by Randall Kohl

Reviewed by Alexandro D. Hernández

Articles

• The Musical Experience of Diasporas: The Return of a Ghanaian Tabom Master Drummer to Bahia

by Juan Diego Díaz

• La era del vinilo en Argentina: Expansión y retracción de la industria discográfica nacional, 1964–1984

by Julián Delgado

• Calle 13 and Ana Tijoux’s Joyous Rebellion: Modeling Transnational Protest through Lyric Music and Song

by Alejandro Vera

Reviews

• In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13, by Alejandro L. Madrid

Reviewed by León F. García Corona

• Identidades en proceso: Cinco compositors cubanos de la diaspora (1990–2013), by Iván César Morales Flores

Reviewed by Cary Peñate

• Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism, edited by Jocelyne Guilbault and Timothy Rommen

Reviewed by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

• ¡Pego el grito en cualquier parte! Historia, tradición y performance de la cueca urbana en Santiago de Chile (1990–2010), by Christian Spencer Espinosa

Reviewed by María Bernardita Batlle Lathrop

• Rites, Rights, and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific, by Michael Birenbaum

Reviewed by Oscar Andrés Hernández Salgar

• American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music, edited by Marisol Barríos-Miranda, Shannon Dudley, and Michelle Habell-Pallán

Reviewed by Jeannelle Ramirez

Articles

• Pacheco and Charanga: Imitation, Innovation, and Cultural Appropriation in the Típico Tradition of New York City

by Sue Miller

• Politicizing Carnival Brass Bands in Olympic Rio de Janeiro: Instrumental Protest and Musical Repertoires of Contention

by Andrew Snyder

• La globalización de la música instrumental a fines del siglo XVIII: Recepcíon del repertorio galante y clásico en Lima (c. 1770 – c.1800)

by Alejandro Vera

• Inter-American Mediations: Charles Seeger, Domingo Santa Cruz, and the Politics of Transnational Muscial Exchange

by Amanda Minks

Reviews

• Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil, by Michael B. Silvers

Reviewed by Charles A. Perrone

• Cuban beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana, by Karen Dubinsky

Reviewed by Liliana González Moreno

• The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, by Patricia Caicedo

Reviewed by Celeste Dolores Mann

Articles

• Del ayllu a la metrópoli: Transformación de los usos y significados de la música aymara al interior de una comunidad transnacional de resurgentistas de la música andina

by Daniel Castelblanco

• Music, Politics, and Sentimentalism in Bolero

by León F. García Corona

• Análisis de un modelo melódico de los romances de tradición oral del Atrato medio

by Alejandro Tobón Restrepo, Federico Ochoa Escobar, Sara López Marín, y Julián Serna Gallego

• Controversia Cubana: The Poetic Politics of Punto Guajiro

by William Hope

Reviews

• Alberto Ginastera in Switzerland: Essays and Documents, by Angela Ida De Benedictis and Felix Meyer, eds.

Reviewed by Eduardo Herrera

• On Site, in Sound: Performance Geographies in América Latina, by Kirstie A. Dorr

Reviewed by Luis Achondo

• Todas las Músicas: Diversidad sonora y cultural en el Perú, by Raúl R. Romero

Reviewed by Juan Eduardo Wolf

Articles

• Los cancioneros:  Vectores impresos de la cultura musical popular en el Chile del 1900

by Tomás Cornejo y Ana Ledezma

• Zamacuecas de papel:  Interrogando un baile decimonónico desde la partitura

by Laura Jordán González, José Manuel Izquierdo, y Rodrigo Torres Alvarado

• Haiti’s Hidden Archives and Accidental Archivists:  A View on the Private Collections and Their Keepers at the Heart of Safeguarding the Nation’s Classical Music Heritage

by Rebecca Dirksen

Reviews

• Pensar la músicadesde América Latina:  Problemas e interrogantes.  Thinking about Music from Latin America:  Issues and Questions, by Juan Pablo González

Reviewed by Steven Loza

• Miraba la noche el alma:  Art Songs by Latin American & Iberian Women Composers (CD), by Patricia Caicedo and Nikos Stavlas

Reviewed by Walter Aaron Clark

• Musicians in Transit:  Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music, by Matthew B. Karush

Reviewed by Jason Borge

• Ventanas del presente II:  De la gesta a la historia musical reciente, by Mercedes Liska and Soledad Venegas

Reviewed by Pablo Alabarces