Title:
Musics of Latin America / Robin Moore, general editor, University of Texas, Austin ; Walter Aaron Clark, contributing editor, University of California, Riverside.
Author:
Moore, Robin D., 1964-
Clark, Walter Aaron.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2012]
©2012
Call Number:
ML199 .M886 2012
Abstract:
The most up-to-date and comprehensive Latin American music survey available. Covering one of the most musically diverse regions in the world, Musics of Latin America emphasizes music as a means of understanding culture and society: each author balances an analysis of musical genres with discussion of the historical and cultural trends that have shaped them. Chapters cover traditional, popular, and classical repertoire, and in-text listening guides ensure that students walk away with a solid understanding of the music [Publisher description].
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780393929652
Physical Description:
xxi, 453, A-48 pages : illustrations, music, maps ; 24 cm
Subject Term:
Contents:
Introduction / Robin Moore -- Music, conquest, and colonialism / Susan Thomas -- Mexico / John Koegel -- Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela / T.M. Scruggs -- Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean / Robin Moore -- Brazil / Cristina Magaldi -- Argentina and the Rioplatense region / Deborah Schwartz-Kates -- Peru and the Andes / Jonathan Ritter -- Latin American impact on contemporary classical music / Walter Aaron Clark -- Twenty-first century Latin American and Latino popular music / Daniel Party.
