Thinking about Music from Latin America: Issues and Questions (Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America) (English and Spanish Edition)

Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. The book addresses such topics as popular music, post-colonialism, women in Latin American music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction through music. It contributes to the development of paradigms of cultural analysis that originated outside of Latin America by testing them in the Latin American musical context, while also exploring how specifically Latin American models can contribute to broader cultural analysis. Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Preface to the English Edition 12 Introduction 14 1 Musicology and Latin America 20 2 The Multidisciplinary Turn 44 3 Postcolonial Listening 56 4 Popular Music Studies 70 5 From Object-Song to Process-Song 84 6 Multiple Origins 96 7 Women Take the Stage 112 8 Tradition, Modernity, and the Avant-Garde 126 9 Primitive Avant-Garde 142 10 Mass Counterculture under Military Dictatorships 154 11 Folk Music and Globalization 162 Afterword to the English Edition 174 Works Cited 178 Index 190 About the Author and Translator 198 Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. It addresses popular music, postcolonialism, women in music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction.