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A Latin American Music Reader
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Pages: 440
Authors: Javier F Leon
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-15 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a collection of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as represe
Mapping Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Jordana Dym
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps rev
Music in Puerto Rico
Language: en
Pages: 155
Authors: Donald Thompson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-02-13 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish eas
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music
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Pages: 592
Authors: Dale Olsen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central Ameri
Cumbia!
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-29 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has be