Music In Latin America And The Caribbean, An Encyclopedic History
Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to
this rich volume.
Gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to
cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles,
African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups
that met and mixed in the New World
The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and
the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in
English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and
human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean
gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to
cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles,
African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups
that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by
cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful
tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs
belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than
two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The
Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and
developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with
the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape
their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays
in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are
structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150
contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing
36 countries.
Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Cultures of South America,
Central America, and Mexico, focuses on the inextricable
relationships between worldviews and musical experience in the
current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into,
among other things, how music is organized and performed, how
musical instruments are constructed and when they are played,
choreographic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of
gender to instruments, and ritual patterns. Two CDs with 44
recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich
volume.
"Simply put, this is a wonderful--in some respects even an
extraordinary--book. From one end to the other, it strikes a series
of elegant balances on every level." Allan W. Atlas,
Distinguished Professor of Music, The Graduate Center, The City
University of New York
"Simply put, this is a wonderful--in some respects even an extraordinary--book. From one end to the other, it strikes a series of elegant balances on every level." Allan W. Atlas, Distinguished Professor of Music, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
