Pablo Palomino, "The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History: A Transnational History "
English | ISBN: 019068741X | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 94 MB
English | ISBN: 019068741X | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 94 MB
The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"? Reconstructing how this category came to be, author Pablo Palomino tells the dynamic history of the modernization of musical practices in Latin America. He focuses on the intellectual, commercial, musicological, and diplomatic actors that spurred these changes in the region between the 1920s and the 1960s, offering a transnational story based on primary sources from countries in and outside of Latin America.
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