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Apr 23, 2020 · This introductory chapter describes the contribution of the book to key historiographic and intellectual approaches to music and Latin American history. It locates historically and conceptually the emergence of the category of Latin American music within the history of the idea of Latin America since the nineteenth century.
Dec 1, 2021 · As a cultural category, Latin America emerged in the 1930s in direct relation to music, an issue Palomino elegantly demonstrates through the analysis of four case studies framed mostly between the 1900s and 1920s, which had little or nothing in common with one another.
Aug 7, 2023 · The result is an original contribution to the history of music in the Americas with a focus on efforts to promote collaboration across national borders, and to institutionalize scholarship and build archives. Through those efforts, a Latin American musicology began to take shape.
- Indigenous Music
- The Arrival of Europeans to The New World
- The African Influence
- A Social Phenomenon
Generally speaking, Latin music history starts with the cultural encounter that occurred after the arrival of Columbus. However, it is important to remember that the indigenous people of the New World had their own music. For instance, the Maya culture gave great attention to music producing all kinds of percussion and wind instruments. Wind instru...
The language was the first contribution that the Spanish and Portuguese powers brought to the New World. Latin music is, in fact, defined to a large extent by the Spanish and Portuguese languages. While Portuguese came to define the music from Brazil, Spanish language defined the rest of Latin America. The second contribution that Europeans brought...
The African slaves that arrived in the New World brought with them all the traditions and beats of their continent. The African influence in Latin music is so big that this could be the single most important element in Latin music history. That influence, of course, does not touch all the rhythms and styles that belong to Latin music. However, if w...
The encounter of the three cultures mentioned before created the dynamic social environment that has shaped Latin music since the colonial times. This environment has been nurtured by foreign sounds, regional traditions, class divisions, and even national identities. Latin Pop and Rock en Espanol have been shaped by the foreign sounds of Rock, Alte...
Apr 23, 2020 · This book reconstructs the transnational history of the category of Latin American music during the first half of the twentieth century, from a longer perspective that begins in the nineteenth century and extends the narrative until the present.
- Pablo Palomino
Latin American music, musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. These traditions reflect the distinctive mixtures of Native American, African, and European influences that have shifted throughout.
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Jun 26, 2021 · Latin music (Portuguese and Spanish: música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all term for music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world, namely Ibero-America and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as music sung in either language.
