{"title":"El Sistema, \"The Venezuelan Musical Miracle\": The Construction of a Global Myth","authors":"Geoffrey Baker","doi":"10.7560/LAMR39202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR39202","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Venezuelan orchestral training program El Sistema represents a paradox. It may be the most famous and lauded music education system in the world, yet scholarly examination in recent years has revealed numerous flaws in the dominant narrative, which appears increasingly like a myth. This article examines the processes by which this narrative was established both nationally and internationally, focusing on the creation, dissemination, and consolidation of the myth by the media, program evaluations, and an emerging global El Sistema industry.RESUMEN:El programa orquestal venezolano El Sistema representa una paradoja. Podría ser el sistema de educación musical más famoso y elogiado del mundo, sin embargo la investigación académica en los últimos años ha revelado numerosas fallas en la narrativa dominante, que aparece cada vez más como un mito. Este artículo examina los procesos por los cuales se estableció esta narrativa a nivel tanto nacional como internacional, centrándose en la creación, diseminación y consolidación del mito por los medios, las evaluaciones de programas, y una industria global emergente de El Sistema.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"39 1","pages":"160 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47367292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representando al caserío: Narcocultura y el diario vivir en los videos musicales de reggaetón","authors":"Omar Ruiz Vega","doi":"10.7560/lamr39204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/lamr39204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71339086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fractal Performance in a Neo-Andean Fiesta: Kaleidoscopic Voices of Villa El Salvador, Peru","authors":"Carlos Odria","doi":"10.7560/LAMR39203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR39203","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article investigates the intricacies of an intergenerational communal event carried out in the underprivileged district of Villa El Salvador (Lima, Peru) in 2013. In this event, which celebrated the reinauguration of a soccer stadium, an orquesta típica brass band, an Afro-Brazilian batucada ensemble, and a school marching band performed simultaneously, creating a thick unified texture that was reflective of underlying, mostly unspoken conflicts inside the community. This type of multiensemble rendition is an example of the novel forms of expressive culture and performance modalities developed by Lima's emerging neo-Andean identities, which fluidly traverse local and global ideologies while adhering to a set of long-lasting Andean ethical guidelines.RESUMEN:En este artículo se investigan los pormenores de un evento comunal e intergeneracional llevado a cabo en 2013 en Villa El Salvador, un distrito de bajos recursos ubicado en Lima, Perú. En dicho evento, el cual fue organizado para celebrar la reinauguración de un estadio de futbol, participaron una orquesta típica, un grupo de batucada afro-brasileña y una banda escolar. Los tres ensambles produjeron música simultáneamente, lo cual conllevó a la formación de una textura musical densa y unificada. Esta textura expresó los conflictos internos, mayormente no verbalizados, existentes dentro de la comunidad. Asimismo, esta forma de ejecución multiensamble se aproxima como ejemplo de las nuevas formas de cultura y modalidades de acción impulsadas por las identidades neo-andinas en Lima, las cuales navegan ideologías locales y globales sin dejar a un lado principios éticos propios de las culturas ancestrales andinas.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"39 1","pages":"194 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44701540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum","authors":"","doi":"10.7560/lamr39206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/lamr39206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44471269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Twelve-Tone Music of Roque Cordero","authors":"Jeremy Orosz","doi":"10.7560/LAMR39201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR39201","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The works of Panamanian composer Roque Cordero (1917–2008), despite their prominence, remain understudied and poorly understood. Most authors describe Cordero's music as serial but not \"strictly\" so. Thorough analysis reveals that such a characterization is unfounded, as Cordero employs comparable techniques of row development to those found in the mature works of renowned composers such as Schoenberg, Webern, and Babbitt. This article demonstrates that Cordero's approach to twelve-tone method was anything but \"loose\" and explores why such misperceptions have gone unquestioned for six decades.RESUMEN:Las obras del compositor panameño Roque Cordero, a pesar de su prominencia, son muy poco estudiadas y mal entendidas. La mayoría de los autores describen a su música dentro del estilo del serialismo, pero no \"exclusivamente\". Algunos análisis exhaustivos revelan que tal caracterización carece de fundamento, porque Cordero emplea técnicas do-decafónicas comparables a aquellas encontradas en las obras de madurez de los compositores renombrados tales como Schoenberg, Webern y Babbitt. Este artículo demuestra que el acercamiento de Cordero al serialismo no fue para nada \"vago\" y explora porqué tales percepciones erróneas no han ido cuestionadas por más de casi seis décadas.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"39 1","pages":"137 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44529398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mecenazgo musical e identidad aristocrática en el México Ilustrado: Miguel de Berrio y Zaldívar, Conde de San Mateo de Valparaíso (1716–1779)","authors":"Javier Marín-López","doi":"10.7560/LAMR39101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR39101","url":null,"abstract":"resumen:Este artículo aporta nueva información y algunas hipótesis preliminares sobre el mecenazgo musical de la nobleza novohispana a mediados del siglo XVIII, usando como caso de estudio al criollo Miguel de Berrio y Zaldívar, Conde de San Mateo de Valparaíso y Marqués del Jaral. Berrio se hizo famoso por las tertulias musicales que tenían lugar en su palacio de la Ciudad de México, en las que él mismo participaba como violinista; adicionalmente, reunió una de las más imponentes colecciones particulares de partituras e instrumentos musicales de todo el continente. El trabajo concluye que la afición musical de Berrio no solo era una forma de entretenimiento y autopromoción, sino parte de su identidad aristocrática como noble.abstract:This article contributes new information and some preliminary hypotheses on the musical patronage of the nobility of New Spain in the mid-eighteenth century, using as case study the creole Miguel de Berrio y Zaldívar, Count of San Mateo of Valparaíso and Marquess of Jaral. Berrio became famous for the musical soirees at his palace in Mexico City, taking part himself as violinist; additionally, he gathered among the most impressive collections of scores and musical instruments on the continent. This work concludes that Berrio's musical interest not only was a form of entertainment and self-promotion but also part of his aristocratic identity as nobleman.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"39 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46369381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Panamanian Musical Nationalism: A Critical Historiography","authors":"Sean Bellaviti","doi":"10.7560/LAMR39104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR39104","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this article I examine the written work of influential Panamanian folklorists and identify key themes underlying discussions of Panamanian musical identity. Through a consideration of the social and political context, I argue that categories of Panamanian folk music are very much politically motivated and socially constructed. Folklorists can be credited for institutionalizing many aspects of folkloric study and documenting certain musical traditions for posterity. In proactively constructing a sense of nation, however, I argue folklorists can be critiqued for reproducing social and racial biases of their time, particularly as this thinking concerned Afro-descendants and, ironically, large segments of rural Panamanians.resumen:Este artículo explora la obra escrita de influyentes folkloristas panameños e identifica temas claves, subyacentes en los debates de la identidad musical panameña. A través de una examinación del contexto social y político, sostengo que las categorías de la música folklórica son de motivación extremadamente política y socialmente construidas. Se puede decir que en gran medida los folkloristas llevaron a cabo la institucionalización del estudio de folklor y la documentación de ciertas tradiciones para la posteridad. En construir un sentido de nación de forma proactiva, sin embargo, se puede también criticar a los folkloristas por reproducir los prejuicios sociales y raciales de su tiempo, especialmente en lo que se refiere a los afro-descendientes, quiénes constituyen, irónicamente, grandes segmentos de la población rural panameña.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"39 1","pages":"121 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41485104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿El \"embajador de Schoenberg\" en Sudamérica? Francisco Curt Lange como promotor de la música de vanguardia (1933–1953)","authors":"Daniela Fugellie","doi":"10.7560/LAMR39103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR39103","url":null,"abstract":"resumen:Reconocido internacionalmente como un pionero de la musicología latinoamericana, el rol de Francisco Curt Lange como promotor de la vanguardia musical hasta ahora no sido objeto de investigaciones detalladas. El artículo estudia el papel que cumple la música de vanguardia al interior de los principales proyectos del Americanismo musical: el Boletín latino-americano de música y la Editorial Cooperativa Interamericana de Compositores. La concepción de la música de vanguardia como un fenómeno internacional, presente en estos proyectos, es interpretada en relación a los objetivos americanistas de Lange y el ideal transnacional que los caracteriza.abstract:Internationally recognized as a pioneer of Latin-American musicology, the role of Francisco Curt Lange as an active promoter of the musical avant-garde has been nearly ignored by musical research. The article studies the function that contemporary music plays within the main projects of his campaign Americanismo musical: the Boletín latino-americano de música and the Editorial Cooperativa Interamericana de Compositores. The conception of musical avant-garde as an international phenomenon, present in these projects, is interpreted in relation to Lange's americanist goals and the transnational ideal that characterizes them.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"39 1","pages":"53 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43841060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking Pretty and Kicking Up Dust: Modernity and Tradition in Maracatu de Baque Solto of Pernambuco","authors":"Christopher Estrada","doi":"10.7560/LAMR38205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR38205","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article looks at the dynamic relationship between modernity and tradition in maracatu de baque solto, a regional music associated with sugarcane workers in the Mata Norte region of Pernambuco, Brazil. Changes in the way the poet-singers (mestres) view their own practice and the history of their art form reflect transformations in the rural areas, innovation in techniques and approaches, and shifting dynamics between maracatu and its interlocutors. The maracatu community is currently negotiating complex and dynamic relationships with cultural programmers and entrepreneurs in which singers reconfigure their participatory tradition for presentational settings. Drawing on three years of ethnographic and historical fieldwork, I pose questions about the limits and possibilities of maracatu's own strategic and unorthodox uses of the dominant discourses surrounding folklore and popular culture in Northeast Brazil.resumen:Este artigo examina a relação dinâmica entre modernidade e tradição no maracatu de baque solto, uma música regional associada aos trabalhadores canavieiros da Zona da Mata Norte de Pernambuco, Brasil. Mudanças na maneira em que os mestres (poetas- cantadores do maracatu) enxergam sua prática e a história da sua arte refletem transformações na zona rural, e mudanças nas dinâmicas entre o maracatu e seus interlocutores. A comunidade do maracatu atualmente negocia relações complexas e dinâmicas com programadores e empresários culturais, onde sua tradição participativa é reconfigurada para ambientes somente de apresentação. Com base em três anos de trabalho de campo etnográfico e histórico, eu questiono os limites e as possibilidades das estratégias forjadas pelo maracatu e seu uso inortodoxo dos discursos dominantes sobre folclore e cultura popular no Nordeste do Brasil.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"38 1","pages":"212 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49421705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Music for Progress\": A Study of Pau Casals's Music Institutions in Puerto Rico as an Extension of US Neocolonialism","authors":"Silvia Lazo","doi":"10.7560/LAMR38204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/LAMR38204","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Debates on postcolonialism and neocolonialism in Latin American musicology and ethnomusicology are embryonic, reflecting socioeconomic asymmetries and an imbalance in academic contributions. This article contributes to the nascent literature by providing a musicological case study of the development of prominent Puerto Rican musical institutions (the Festival Casals, Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, and Puerto Rico Conservatory) as expressions of US neocolonialism. Although Casals's legacy may arguably be praiseworthy in some respects, Festival Casals Inc., tethered to Operación Serenidad, embodies developmental policies that express US values along political, economic, and cultural lines and are best appraised through postcolonial history.resumen:Los debates sobre el poscolonialismo y el neocolonialismo en la musicología latinoamericana y la etnomusicología siguen siendo embrionarios, reflejando asimetrías socioeconómicas y un desequilibrio en las contribuciones académicas. En este artículo contribuyo a la naciente literatura proporcionando un estudio de estudio musicológico sobre el desarrollo de destacadas instituciones musicales puertorriqueñas (el Festival Casals, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico y el Conservatorio de Puerto Rico) como expresiones del neocolonialismo estadounidense. Mientras que el legado de Casals puede ser digno de elogio en algunos aspectos, el Festival Casals Inc., atado a la Operación Serenidad, encarna políticas de desarrollo que expresan los valores estadounidenses a lo largo de líneas políticas, económicas y culturales y son mejor valoradas atraves de la historia postcolonial.","PeriodicalId":41979,"journal":{"name":"LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW-REVISTA DE MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA","volume":"38 1","pages":"185 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46354970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}