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Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamerica

Editor: Robin Moore, The University of Texas at Austin

LAMR explores the historical, ethnographic, and socio-cultural dimensions of Latin American music in Latin American social groups, including the Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, and Portuguese populations in the United States. Articles are written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

"It is interdisciplinary in scope, touching the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and urban studies."
Magazines for Libraries

Latin American Music Review is indexed and/or abstracted in Academic Search Premier, HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index), IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), and The Music Index.

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Spring/Summer 2009, 30:1
Fall/Winter 2008, 29:2
Spring/Summer 2008, 29:1
Fall/Winter 2007, 28:2
Spring/Summer 2007, 28:1
Fall/Winter 2006, 27:2
Spring/Summer 2006, 27:1
Fall/Winter 2005, 26:2
Spring/Summer 2005, 26:1
Archives

Spring/Summer 2009, 30:1

The Acoustic Body: Rumba Guarapachanguera and Abakuá Sociality in Central Park
Berta Jottar
The Singing Voice and Racial Politics on the Brazilian Evangelical Music Scene
John Burdick
Appropriation in Reverse; or What Happens When Popular Music Goes Dodecaphonic
Fabio Akcelrud Durão and José Adriano Fenerick
Placer Culpable: Shame and Nostalgia in the Chilean 1990s Balada Revival
Daniel Party

Reviews

Geoffrey Baker, Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco
Joshua Tucker
Julian Carrillo, Seis casi-sonatas en cuartos de tono para violoncello solo
Alejandro L. Madrid
Helmut Brenner, Marimbas in Latinamerika. Historische Fakten unt Status quo der Marimbatraditionen in Mexiko, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Kolumbien, Ecuador, und Brasilien
Carola Schormann
Holly Wissler, Kusisqa Waqashayku (DVD)
Kathryn Metz

Fall/Winter 2008, 29:2

Acúmulos e Vazios da Pesquisa Sobre o Rock Argentino (Accumulation and Gaps in the Research on Argentine Rock )
Adrián Fanju
La Flûte Indienne: The Early History of Andean Folkloric-Popular Music in France and its Impact on Nueva Canción
Fernando Rios
A propósito de nuevos sonidos para nuevos reinos: prescripciones y práctices músico-rituales en el área surandina colonial
Victor Rondón y Alejandro Vera
Danza antillana, conjuntos militares, nacionalismo musical e identidad dominicana: retomando los pasos perdidos del merengue
Edgardo Díaz Díaz

Reviews

Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher, (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival
Timothy Rommen
Cristóbal Díaz Ayala, Los contrapunteos de la Música Cubana
Robin Moore
Björn Heile, The Music of Mauricio Kagel
Deborah Schwartz-Kates
Jan Sverre Knudsen, Those that Fly without Wings: Music and Dance in a Chilean Immigrant Community
Molly White
Lorraine Leu, Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition
Krista Kateneva
Sydney Hutchinson, From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture
Kim Kattari

Spring/Summer 2008, 29:1

Brazil in France, 1922: An Anthropological Study about the Congenital International Nexus of Popular Music
Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
Música e Fé: A cena religiosa no mercado fonográfico brasileiro
Eduardo Vicente
M. Camargo Guarnieri and the Influence of Mário de Andrade's Modernism
Sarah Tyrrell
Cultural Geographies of Afro-Brazilian Symbolic Practice: Tradition and Change in Maracatu de Nação (Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil)
Jerry D. Metz

Reviews

Book Review: Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia's Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music (Indiana University Press)
Daniel Sharp
Book Review: Malena Kuss (ed.) Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History. Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico (University of Texas Press)
Jane L. Florine
CD Review: Ecos de Borinquen, Jibaro Hasta el Hueso; Los Pleneros de la 21, Para Todo Ustedes; Viento de Agua, Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima; Various artists, Quisqueya en el Hudson/Dominican Music in New York City (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Julian Gerstin
CD Review: José Gutierrez y Los Hermanos Ochoa, La Bamba: Sones Jarochos from Veracruz; Los Camperos de Valles, El ave de mi Sonar: Mexican Sones Huastecos; Arpex, ¡Tierra Caliente! Music from the Hotlands of Michoacán (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrell
CD Review: Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos, ¡Llegaron Los Camperos! Concert Favorites of Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrell
CD Review: Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa's Havana & Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957: Batá, Bembé, and Palo Songs (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Michael Marcuzzi

Fall/Winter 2007, 28:2

Music, Citizenship, and Violence in Postdictatorship Brazil
Frederick Moehn
Bandidos de Cristo: Representations of the Power of Criminal Factions in Rio's Proibidão Funk
Paul Sneed
Colonialidad y Poscolonialidad Musical en Colombia
Oscar Hernández Salgar
Histórias e historadores da música popular no Brasil
José Geraldo

Reviews

Charles W. White, Alejandro García Caturla: A Cuban composer in the twentieth century
Mareia Quintero Rivera
Leonardo Acosta, Otra visión de la musica cubana
Alejandro L. Madrid and Liliana González Moreno
David García, Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Popular Music
Susan Thomas
Bryan McCann, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil
Frederick Moehn
Heidi Feldman, Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
Joshua Tucker
DVD Review: Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center, Fandango: Searching for the White Monkey (Buscando el Mono Blanco)
Alex E. Chávez

Spring/Summer 2007, 28:1

El bambuco, los saberes mestizos y la academia: un análisis histórico de la persistencia de la colonialidad en los estudios musicales latinoamericanos
Carolina Santamaría Delgado
El chico duro de La Habana agresividad, desafío y cinismo en la timba cubana
Rubén López Cano
Tango Renovación: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina
Morgan James Luker
Celebrity, "Crossover," and Cubanidad: Celia Cruz as "La Reina de Salsa," 1971-2003
Christina D. Abreu
El arpa diatónica paraguaya en la búsqueda del tekorã: representaciones de paraguayidad
Alfredo Colman

Reviews

Tomas Marco, El sonido del realismo mágico
David P. Appleby
Juan Orrego Salas, Encuentros, visiones y repasos. Capítulos en el camino de mi música y mi vida
Juan Pablo González
Mariana Martins Villaça, Polifonia tropical: experimentalismo e engajamento na música popular (Brasil e Cuba, 1967-1972)
Mareia Quintero Rivera
Vincenzo Perna, Timba: The Sound of Cuban Crisis
Robin Moore
Michael Largey, Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism
Lois Wilken
Karen E. Richman, Migration and Vodou
Rebecca Sager
Catana Pérez de Cuello and Rafael Solano, El Merengue: Música y Baile de la República Dominicana; and Darío Tejeda and Rafael Emilio Yunén, eds., El Merengue en la Cultura Dominicana y del Caribe: Memorías del Primer Congreso Internacional "Música, Identidad y Cultura en el Caribe"
Peter Manuel
CD Review: Reinado do Rosário de Itapecerica (MG): Da Festa e dos Mistérios, and Folia de Reis: Tradição e Fé
Suzel Ana Reily

Fall/Winter 2006, 27:2

The Saga of a Song: Authorship and Ownership in the Case of "Guantanamera"
Peter Manuel
Imagining an Afro-Creole Nation: Eugène Mona's Music in Martinique of the 1980s
Dominique Cyrille
The Film Music of Alberto Ginastera: An Introduction to the Sources and Their Significance
Deborah Schwartz-Kates
Carlos Guastavino: A Re-evaluation of His Harmonic Language
Jonathan Kulp

Reviews

Helena Simonett, En Sinaloa nací: Historia de la música de banda
Daniel Sheehy
Robin Moore, Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba
Julian Gerstin
Shannon Dudley, Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Hope Munro Smith
Daniel H. Sheehy, Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Cándida F. Jácquez
Dale A. Olsen, The Chrysanthemum and the Song. Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora
Ketty Wong
Guty Cárdenas, Un siglo del ruiseñor; Beatriz Heredia y Rafael de Pau, Guty Cárdenas: Leyenda o realidad; Luis Pérez Sabido, Guty Cárdenas: Su vida y sus canciones; Álvaro Vega and Enrique Martín, Guty Cárdenas: Cancionero
Helmut Brenner
Patricia Caicedo and Eugenia Gassull, A mi ciudad nativa/To my native city: Art Songs of Latin America
Jonathan Kulp"

Spring/Summer 2006, 27:1

Editor's Note: A Selection of the Works of Gerard Béhague
Robin Moore

Theoretical or Issue-Oriented Works

A Performance and Listener-Centered Approach to Musical Analysis: Some Theoretical and Methodological Factors. Originally published in Ethnomusicologie und historiche Musikwissenschaft, ed. Christoph-Helmut Mahling and Stephen Münch. Tutzing, Germany: Verlag Hans Schnieder, 1997
Diversity and the Arts: Issues and Strategies. Symposium Paper, University of Michigan of Ann Arbor, May 2005

Art Music Studies

Indianism in Latin American Art-Music Composition of the 1920s to 1940s: Case Studies from Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. Conference Paper, International Conference of Americanists, Stockholm, July 1994
La problemática de la identidad cultural en la música culta hispano-caribeña. Ponencia presentada en el Tercer Foro de Compositores del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico, octubre 1990
La problemática de la posición socio-política del compositor en la música nueva en Latinoamérica. Ponencia presentada en el Tercer Foro de Compositores del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico, octubre 1990

State of Research of Brazilian Music

Música "erudita", "folclórica" e "popular" do Brasil: Interações e inferências para a musicologia e etnomusicologia modernas. Lisboa, octubre 1998
Perspectivas atuais na pesquisa musical e estratégias analíticas da Música Popular Brasileira

Globalization/Modernization

Rap, Reggae, Rock, or Samba: The Local and the Global in Brazilian Popular Music (1985-1995). Published in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 11, 2003
Regional and National Trends in Afro-Brazilian Religious Musics: A Case of Cultural Pluralism. Lecture, Brown University, March 6, 1992

Reviews

Paul Austerlitz, Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity
David F. García
Jill Lane, Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
Robin Moore
Guillermo Carbó Ronderos, Tambora: Baile cantado en Colombia
Carolina Santamaría
Various composers, Guitarra de Cristal: Contemporary Cuban Music for the Guitar
Alejandro L. Madrid
Estevan César Azcona and Russell Rodriguez, comp., ann., prod., Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement
Brenda M. Romero

Fall/Winter 2005, 26:2

Articles

¿De qué color es el oro?: Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898-1958
Gregory T. Cushman
Encuentros: Dances of the Inti Raymi in Cotacachi, Ecuador
Michelle Wibbelsman
Carrasco or Mathías: Plagiarism and Corruption in an Eighteenth-Century Examen de Oposición from the Oaxaca Cathedral
Mark Brill
The Making of a Social History of Popular Music in Chile: Problems, Methods, and Results
Juan Pablo Gonzalez
El compositor español Hernando Franco (1532-85) antes de su llegada a México: trayectoria profesional en Portugal, Santo Domingo, Cuba y Guatemala
María Gembero Ustárroz
Ritual y espectáculo en la música indígena: El caso de los jóvenes toba del Chaco argentino
Silvia Citro

Reviews

Joel Sherzer, ed. and trans., Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians
Greg Urban
Frances R. Aparicio and Cándida F. Jáquez, eds., Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America
Estevan Azcona
Elizabeth A. McAlister, Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora
Bryan Walls
Música para piano: Ricardo Tacuchian
Márcio Bezerra

Spring/Summer 2005, 26:1

Articles

The Oaxaca Cathedral Exámen de Oposición and the Quest for a Modern Style
Mark Brill
Borderland Music as Symbolic Forms of Nationalism: The Best of the Texas Tornados, Partners, and ¡Viva Luckenbach!
Margaret E. Dorsey
Making it There: Piazzolla's New York Concerts
David Butler Cannata
Stravinsky y la constelación ideológica argentina en 1936
Omar Corrado
Film Music and Community Development in Rural Puerto Rico: The DIVEDCO Program (1948-1991)
Donald Thompson

Reviews

Lynn A. Meisch, Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena
Michelle Wibbelsman
Michelle Bigenho, Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance
Elizabeth LaBate
Ernesto Donas y Denise Milstein, Lenguajes, imaginarios y mediaciones en la canción popular montevideana (1962-1999)
Marcos Napolitano
The Piano Works of Aurelio de la Vega Martha Marchena, piano
Carl Byron

LAMR Archives

Guidelines for Contributors

Latin American Music Review publishes original articles in the fields of musicology and ethnomusicology, broadly defined, applied to Latin American musical expressions. Manuscripts, notes, and bibliographies should be typed double-spaced with ample margins, and submitted electronically as Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text (.rtf) files attached to e-mail sent to lamr@uts.cc.utexas.edu. If score examples, photographs, or other diagrams are to be included, please attach them separately as graphic files (.TIF or .JPG) with as high a resolution as possible (300 dpi minimum). Along with the article, please submit a short abstract (100–150 words, in both English and Spanish or Portuguese) and a brief biographical sketch of the author. Articles and reviews may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, and formatting for punctuation, quotations, and capitalization should follow the conventions for scholarship in the language of the article. Formats for notes and bibliography are those of the Chicago Manual of Style or of the social science publications, such as Current Anthropology. Communications and books and CDs for review should be sent to the editor, Robin Moore, School of Music, 1 University Station E3100, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0435.

La Revista de Música Latinoamericana publica artículos originales en los campos de musicología y etnomusicología, ampliamente definidos, dedicados a las expresiones musicales latinoamericanas. Los manuscritos, notas y bibliografías se deben redactar a espacio doble y márgenes suficientes, como archivos de tipo Microsoft Word (.doc) o Rich Text (.rtf), adjuntados a un e-mail que se puede mandar al lamr@uts.cc.utexas.edu. Si se deben incluir imágenes (partituras, fotos u otras figuras), favor de adjuntarlos como archivos gráficos (.TIF o .JPG) separados, con la resolución más alta posible (mínimo de 300 dpi). Con el artículo, favor de incluir una breve reseña (100–150 palabras, en una versión en español o portugués y otra en inglés) y una pequeña biografía del autor. Las materias se pueden entregar en inglés, español o portugués, y el formato para puntuación, citas y uso de mayúscula se debe seguir las normas para publicaciones en el idioma del artículo. Para el formato para notas y bibliografía, véase el Chicago Manual of Style o revistas de las ciencias sociales como Current Anthropology. Otras comunicaciones, libros y CDs enviados para reseñas se deben mandar al editor, Robin Moore, School of Music, 1 University Station E3100, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712-0435.

Manuscripts, Editorial Correspondence, and Review Copies: Robin Moore, School of Music, MRH 3.204, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1208. (E-mail: lamr@uts.cc.utexas.edu).

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