Latin American Music, MUSC 4892/5892; Spring, 2006

 

Bibliography  (includes required readings listed above, plus additional sources marked with *):  this is not a definitive list; you may find many more sources in Chinook, etc.

 

*Aho, William R.  "Steel Band Music in Trinidad and Tobago:  The Creation of a

People's Music."  Latin American Music Review 8(Spr-Sum1987):26-58. 

 

*American Musical Traditions, Volume 5:  Latino American and Asian American Music.  New York:  Schirmer, 2002 (ML3551.A53, 2002, V. 5)

 

*Aparicio, Frances R.  Listening to Salsa, Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press, 1998 (ML3535.5.
A63, 1998)

 

*Appleby, David P.  The Music of Brazil.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1983 (ML232.A74, 1983)

 

Béhague, Gérard.         Music in Latin America:  An Introduction.   New Jersey:

Prentice-Hall, Inc.  1979.  (ML199.B44)

 

*Béhague, Gérard.  "Popular Music in Latin America."  Studies in Latin American

Popular Culture 5(1986):41-68.

 

*Béhague, Gérard.  "Some Liturgical Functions of Afro-Brazilian Religious Music

in Salvador, Bahia."  The World of Music XIX (3/4) (1977):4-23.    

 

Buena Vista Social Club (videorecording), directed by Wim Wenders.  (Norlin Media Stacks:  DVD 00-39).  CD with same title in Music Library (CD14538)

 

*Cáceres, Abraham.  "Preliminary Comments on the Marimba in the Americas"

Discourse in Ethnomusicology (1978):225-50.

 

*Carrasco Pirard, Eduardo:  "The nueva canción in Latin America." 

International Social Science Journal 94(Vol. XXXIV, No.4, 1982):599-623.

 

*Clark, Jonathan.  Descriptive notes to CD Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán:  Their First Recordings, 1937-1947.  Vol. 3 of Mexico's Pioneer Mariachis.  El Cerrito, Calif.: Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7015, 1992

 

*Courlander, Harold.  The Drum and the Hoe.  Berkeley:  University of California

Press, 1960:1-29 (Norlin Library:  GR121.H3C65, 1960)

 

*Courlander, Harold.  "Musical Instruments of Cuba."  The Musical Quarterly

28(1942):227-240.

 

*Dickey, Dan William.  The Kennedy Corridos:  a Study of the Ballads of a Mexican-American Hero.  Austin:  Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1978 (ML3481.D53)

 

*The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy.  New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 1998 - In the reference area of the Music Library (ML100.G16, 1998)

 

*Garland Handbook of Latin American Music, with audio CD.  ON RESERVE in the Music Library  (ML199.G36, 2000, CD 4243, v.2, c.2)

 

*Geijerstam, Claes af.  Popular Music in Mexico.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1976 (ML3570.G44)

 

Gradante, William.  "'El Hijo del Pueblo':  José Alfredo Jiménez and the Mexican Canción Ranchera.""  Latin American Music Review (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1982):36-59.

                                   

*Herrera-Sobek, María.  "Gender Conflict and the Medieval Exemplum in the Corrido."  Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 2, Spring, 1991:105-110

 

*Herrera-Sobek, María.  The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2001 (Norlin Library:  PQ7180.H4 1990)

           

*Herrera-Sobek, María:  Northward Bound : the Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993 (ML3558.H47, 1993)

 

Herrera-Sobek, María.  "Mothers, Lovers, and Soldiers:  Images of Woman in the Mexican Corrido."  Keystone Folklore 23(1-2) (1979):53-57.

 

Manuel, Peter. Caribbean Currents. Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995 (ML3565.M36, 1995)

 

*Manuel, Peter, editor.  Essays on Cuban Music, North American Perspectives.  Maryland:  University Press of America, Inc., 1991 (ML3565.M36, 1995)

                                   

Marre, Jeremy and Hannah Charlton.  Beats of the Heart, Popular Music of the

World.  London:  Pluto Press Limited, 1985.  Videos:  Roots, Rock, Reggae (Video 168); Salsa, Latin Pop Music in the City (Video 170, c. 2)

 

Martí, Samuel.  Instrumentos Musicales Precortesianos.  México:  Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1955 (ML482.M3)

 

*McDowell, John H.  Poetry and Violence, the Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica.  Urbana and Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2000 (Norlin Library:  PQ7291.G84 M3, 2000)

 

*Morris, Nancy.  "'Canto Porque es Necesario Cantar':  The New Song Movement in Chile, 1973-1983."  Latin American Research Review XXI (2) (1986):117-136.

 

*Olsen, Dale.  "Folk Music of South America -- A Musical Mosaic."  Musics of

Many Cultures, edited by Elizabeth May.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1980:386-425 (ML3798.M87, with Disc 9302)

 

Olsen, Dale.²Notch Flutes of Life and Transcendence,² in Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures, 2002:pp 36-60  (ML3575.A2 O57 2002)

 

Olsen, Dale.  "Symbol and Function in South American Indian Music."   Musics  of Many Cultures, edited by Elizabeth May.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1980:363-385 (ML3798.M87, with Disc 9302)

 

*Pacini Hernandez, Deborah.  Bachata, a Social History of a Dominican Popular Music.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995 (ML3480.D65 P3, 1995)

 

Padwa, Mariner Ezra.  Peter of Ghent and the Introduction of European Music to the New World.  Santa Fe, N.M. : Hapax Press, 1993 (F1230.G3 P3, 1993)

 

Paredes, Américo.  "Songs of Border Conflict," and "Gregorio Cortez" text, from

A Texas-Mexican Cancionero:  Folksongs of the Lower Border, 1976 (ML668.4 T49, 1995)

 

*Paredes, Américo.  With his Pistol in His Hand.  Austin: University of Texas  Press. 1958 (Norlin Library:  PQ7297.A1 C63)

 

*Peña, Manuel H. The Mexican American Orquesta:  Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict.  Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999 (ML3481.P44, 1999)

 

*Peña, Manuel H.  The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working-Class Music.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985 ((ML3481.P46, 1985)

 

*Perrone, Charles A. Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song, MPB 1965-1985.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1989 (ML3487.B7 P5 1989)

 

*Perrone, Charles A. and Christopher Dunn, editors.  Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2001 (ML3487.B7 B76 2001)

 

*Picard, Robert.  The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico, an Essay on the Apostolate and Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders of New Spain, 1523-1572.  Trans. Lesley Byrd Simpson. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1966 (BX1428.R53)

 

*Roberts, John Storm.  The Latin Tinge, the Impact of Latin American Music on the United States.  New York:  Original Music, 1979 (ML3475.R6 1999)

 

*Romero, Brenda.  "The New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico Borderlands and the Concept of Indio in the Matachines Dance." Musical Cultures of Latin America:  Global Effects, Past and Present. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Volume XI.   Los Angeles:  The Regents of the University of  California, 2003:81-7

 

Romero, Brenda.  "Profile of an Ethnomusicologist" for Garland Encyclopedia of Music:  General Music.  Volume 10, edited by Ruth Stone.  New York:  Routledge, 2002 (ML100.G16, 1998)

 

Romero, Brenda.  "La Indita of New Mexico:  Gender and Cultural Identification," in Chicana Traditions, Continuity and Change, edited by Olga Najera-Ramirez and Norma Cantu.  Chicago:  University of Illinois Press ( E184.M5 C4 2002 )

*Romero, Brenda.  "Latino Musical Communities in New Mexico and Colorado" in American Musical Atlas, Volume 5, edited by Jeff Todd Titon and Bob Carlin.  New York:  Schirmer Reference, 2002 (ML3551.A53, 2002, V. 5)

 

*Romero, Brenda. The Matachines Music and Dance in San Juan, Pueblo and Alcalde,

New Mexico:  Contexts and Meanings.  Doctoral dissertation in Ethnomusicology.  University of California, Los Angeles:  1993 (GV1796.M35 R65 1993a 

 

*Schechter, John M.  "The Diatonic Harp in Ecuador:  Historical Background and

Modern Traditions,"  Parts I and II.  Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society X (1984):97-118.

 

*Schechter, John M.  "The Inca Cantar Historico:  A Lexico-Historical Elaboration

on Two Cultural Themes."  Ethnomusicology XXIII/2 (May 1979):191-204.

 

Schechter, John M.  ³Latin America/Ecuador,² in Worlds of Music, edited by Jeff Todd Titon.  New York:  Schirmer, 2002 (ML3545 .W67 2002 c.2 , with CD 14922)

 

Schechter, John M.  Music in Latin American Culture, Regional Traditions.  New York:  Schirmer, 1999 (ML199.M86, 1999)

 

Seeger, Anthony.  "What Can We Learn When They Sing?  Vocal Genres of the Suya Indians of Central Brazil."  Ethnomusicology 23(2) (September 1979):373-94 (ML3575.B7 S36, 1987)

 

*Seeger, Anthony. Why Suyá Sing: a Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1987

 

*Seitz, Barbara.  "Quichua Songs to Sadden the Heart:  Music in A Communication Event."  Latin American Music Review Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 1981):223-251.

 

*Simonett, Helena.  Banda, Mexican Musical Life Across Borders.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan university Press, 2001 (ML3485.7.S56 S55 2001)

 

*Sonnichsen, Philip, with assistance from Hermes Rafael and Jim Nicolopulos.  Descriptive notes to CD Mariachi Coculense de Cirilo Marmolejo, 1926-1936.  Vol. 1 of Mexico's Pioneer Mariachis.  El Cerrito, Calif.:  Arhoolie Folklyric CD 7011, 1993

 

*Stevenson, Robert.  "Methods Used by Contemporary Scholars in the Study of Pre-Conquest Music."  Music in Aztec and Inca Territory.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1968:17-30 (ML3549 .S84 1976)

 

Titon, Jeff Todd.  Worlds of Music.  New York:  Schirmer, 2002 (ML3545 .W67 2002 c.2 , with CD 14922)

 

*Turino, Thomas.  "The Charango and the Sirena:  Music, Magic, and the Power

of Love."  Latin American Music Review 4(Spring/Summer 1983):81-119.

 

*Turino, Thomas.  Moving Away from Silence, Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1993 (ML3575.P4 T87)

 

*Vogt, Evon Z.  "On the Symbolic Meaning of Percussion in Zinacanteco Ritual."

Journal of Anthropological Research  Vol. 33, No. 3(Fall 1977):231-244

 

*Wald, Elijah.  Narcocorrido:  a Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrilas.  New York:  Rayo, 2001 (ML3570.W35 2001)

 

*Wilcken, Lois, featuring Frisner Augustin.  The Drums of Vodou.  Tempe, AZ:  White Cliffs Media Company, 1992 (ML3565 .W54 1992, with CD15532)