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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to the English edition
Introduction
I. Musicology and Latin America
II. The Multidisciplinary Turn
III. Postcolonial Listening
IV. Popular Music Studies
V. From Song-Object to Song-Process
VI. Multiple Origins: "Martian Cutie" Travels the Earth
VII. Women Take the Stage
VIII. Tradition, Modernity, and the Avant-garde: From the Conservatory to Víctor Jara
IX. Primitive Avant-garde: Los Jaivas and the Chilean Counterculture
X. Mass Counterculture under Military Dictatorships-Brazil and Chile
XI. Folk Music and Globalization: Expanding Roots across Space and Time
Afterword to the English edition
Works cited
Index
About the Author and Translator
About the author
Juan Pablo González is director of the Alberto Hurtado University Music Institute and affiliate of the Catholic University of Chile Institute of History.
Nancy Morris is professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production and the Doctoral Program in Media and Communication at Temple University.
Summary
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.
