Charango Method
Charango Method

Author: Italo Pedrotti

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1610651537

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This is the first Charango method to use conventional musical notation, and the only bilingual (Spanish and English) text of its kind. These characteristics make the method attractive to musicians with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, interests and skill levels.The method is comprised of two parts: A first section regarding strumming techniques and a second section regarding melodic plucking techniques. the first section provides a clear and precise method for learning the rasgueo repique and tremolo skills central to the Charango repertoire. the second section, meanwhile, provides an indispensible guide to expressive techniques for embellishing melodic lines including hammer-ons and pull-offs, trills, simultaneous melodies and arpeggios.The method is appropriate for a wide range of musical skill levels, from beginners to accomplished Charanguists who want to improve their technical chops. Exercises are clear and progressive. In the event that the student is not familiar with music theory, an appendix clarifies the basics of musical notation. In addition to 201 written exercises for the Charango solo, the method includes 23 South American folk music classics arranged for Charango and guitar accompaniment. It thus serves as both a pedagogical tool and a source of performance repertoire. the musical scores included in the method are accompanied by a CD of recorded exercises and a free audio download of repertoire played by recognized Chilean instrumentalists.

Creating Our Own
Creating Our Own

Author: Zoila S. Mendoza

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2008-01-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780822341529

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DIVAnalyzes the key role that the production of "folkloric" music, dance, and drama has had in the formation of ethnic/racial identities, regionalism, and nationalism in Cuzco, Peru during the twentieth century./div

World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific
World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific

Author: Simon Broughton

Publisher: Rough Guides

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9781858286365

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The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History

Author: Malena Kuss

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-05

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780292788404

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The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries. Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico, focuses on the inextricable relationships between worldviews and musical experience in the current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into, among other things, how music is organized and performed, how musical instruments are constructed and when they are played, choreographic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of gender to instruments, and ritual patterns. Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich volume.

Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes
Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes

Author: Henry Stobart

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780754604891

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Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes is a musical ethnography of a Quechua speaking community of northern Potosí, in the Bolivian Andes. Through rich and evocative ethnography, the book delves into the powerful meanings ascribed to sound; charts unfamiliar aesthetic territories; suggests how modernity can contribute to indigeneity; and reveals remarkable musical perspectives on llama husbandry and potato cultivation. As we follow the lives, shifting fortunes and musical year of this, in many ways, fragile community, a seasonally shifting array of musical instruments, genres, dances and tunings are introduced. The book is accompanied by an audio CD, photographs, musical transcriptions and explanatory diagrams.

A Latin American Music Reader
A Latin American Music Reader

Author: Javier F Leon

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0252098439

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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 representative, outstanding, and influential in the field, each article appears in English translation. A detailed new introduction by León and Simonett both surveys and contextualizes the history of Latin American ethnomusicology, opening the door for readers energized by the musical forms brought and nurtured by immigrants from throughout Latin America. Contributors include Marina Alonso Bolaños, Gonzalo Camacho Díaz, José Jorge de Carvalho, Claudio F. Díaz, Rodrigo Cantos Savelli Gomes, Juan Pablo González, Rubén López-Cano, Angela Lühning, Jorge Martínez Ulloa, Maria Ignêz Cruz Mello, Julio Mendívil, Carlos Miñana Blasco, Raúl R. Romero, Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros, Carlos Sandroni, Carolina Santamaría-Delgado, Rodrigo Torres Alvarado, and Alejandro Vera.

Living Politics, Making Music
Living Politics, Making Music

Author: Jan Fairley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1317103963

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The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that will be of interest to all scholars in the field while also serving as an excellent introduction for students interested in popular music as a global phenomenon. Fairley’s work was focused on the problems and possibilities of cross-cultural musical influences, fantasies and flows and on the importance of performing circuits and networks. Her interest in the details of music-making and in the lives of music-makers means that this collection is also an original and illuminating study of music and politics. In drawing on Jan Fairley’s journalism, this volume also offers students a guide to various genres of world music, from Cuban son to flamenco, as well as an insight into the lives of such world music stars as Mercedes Sosa and Silvio Rodríguez. This is inspiring as well as essential reading.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music
Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music

Author: George Torres

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-03-27

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13:

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This comprehensive survey examines Latin American music, focusing on popular—as opposed to folk or art—music and containing more than 200 entries on the concepts and terminology, ensembles, and instruments that the genre comprises. The rich and soulful character of Latin American culture is expressed most vividly in the sounds and expressions of its musical heritage. While other scholars have attempted to define and interpret this body of work, no other resource has provided such a detailed view of the topic, covering everything from the mambo and unique music instruments to the biographies of famous Latino musicians. Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music delivers scholarly, authoritative, and accessible information on the subject, and is the only single-volume reference in English that is devoted to an encyclopedic study of the popular music in this genre. This comprehensive text—organized alphabetically—contains roughly 200 entries and includes a chronology, discussion of themes in Latin American music, and 37 biographical sidebars of significant musicians and performers. The depth and scope of the book's coverage will benefit music courses, as well as studies in Latin American history, multicultural perspectives, and popular culture.

The Rough Guide to Bolivia
The Rough Guide to Bolivia

Author: Brendon Griffin

Publisher: Rough Guides UK

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1409358704

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Full-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Bolivia is the ultimate travel guide to one of South America's most captivating countries. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style, Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights. At the top of your list and guaranteed to get you value for money, each guide also reviews the best accommodation and restaurants in all price brackets. We know there are times for saving, and times for splashing out. In The Rough Guide to Bolivia: - Over 50 colour-coded maps featuring every listing - Area-by-area chapter highlights - Top 5 boxes - Things not to miss section Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Bolivia. Originally published in print in 2012. Now available in ePub format.

The Rough Guide to Bolivia (Travel Guide eBook)
The Rough Guide to Bolivia (Travel Guide eBook)

Author: Rough Guides

Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1786719983

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Discover Bolivia with the most incisive andentertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to swim with pink riverdolphins, cycle the world's most dangerous road, or follow in the footsteps ofChe Guevara and Butch Cassidy, The RoughGuide to Bolivia will show you the ideal places to sleep, eat, drink andshop along the way. Inside The Rough Guide to Bolivia - Independent, trusted reviews written in Rough Guides'trademark blend of humour, honesty and insight, to help you get the most out ofyour visit, with options to suit every budget. - Full-colour maps throughout -navigate the steep, narrow lanes of La Paz's market district or theordered colonial streets of Sucre's historic centre without needing toget online. - Stunning, inspirational images - Itineraries - carefully plannedroutes to help you organize your trip. - Detailed regional coverage -whether off the beaten track or in more mainstream tourist destinations,this travel guide has in-depth practical advice for every step of the way.Areas covered include: La Paz; Oruro; Potosí; Sucre; Cochabamba;Santa Cruz; and Rurrenabaque. Attractions include: Mercado de Hechihería;Tiwanuku; Lake Titicaca and Isla del Sol; Coroico and the "Death Road"; theInca trails; Salar de Uyuni; Reserva de Fauna AndinaEduardo Avaroa; the Che Guevara trail; the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos;Parque Nacional Madidi and the Amazon. - Basics - essential pre-departurepractical information including getting there, local transport,accommodation, food and drink, fiestas, health, national parks andreserves, outdoor activities, crime and personal safety, culture and etiquetteand more. - Background information - aContexts chapter devoted to history, wildlife and ecology, books, musicand dance,plus a handy language section and glossary. Make the Most of Your Time on Earth with theRough Guide to Bolivia. About Rough Guides: Escape theeveryday with Rough Guides. We are a leading travel publisher known for our"tell it like it is" attitude, up-to-date content and great writing.Since 1982, we've published books covering more than 120 destinations aroundthe globe, with an ever-growing series of ebooks, a range of beautiful, inspirationalreference titles, and an award-winning website. We pride ourselves on ouraccurate, honest and informed travel guides.