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Overviews

The Latin Tinge: The Impact of
Latin American Music on the United States

by John Storm Roberts
(via UK, via Europe)

Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular
Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

by Frances R. Aparicio
(via UK, via Europe)

Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions
by John M. Schechter
(via UK, via Europe)

Salsa: The Rhythm of Latin Music
by Charley Gerard, Larry W. Smith (Editor)
(via Europe)

Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music
by Steven Loza
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Argentina

The Argentine Tango As Social History, 1880-1955:
The Soul of the People

by Donald S. Castro
(via UK)

Tango: The Dance, the Song, the Story
by Simon Collier (Editor), Artemis Cooper
(via UK, via Europe)

Tango and the Political Economy of Passion
(Institutional Structures of Feeling)

by Marta E. Savigliano
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Brazil

Bossa Nova e Samba: History, People,
Lyrics, Scores, Recordings, Music

by Florencio O. de Rio, Florencio O. Garcia (Editor)

The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova,
and the Popular Music of Brazil

by Chris McGowan, Ricardo Pessanha
(via UK, via Europe)

Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: 1965-1985
by Charles A. Perrone
(via UK, via Europe)

Musica Brasileira: A History of
Popular Music and the People of Brazil

by Claus Schreiner
(via UK)

The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music
and National Identity in Brazil

by Hermano Vianna, John C. Chasteen (Editor)
(via UK, via Europe)

Samba
by Alma Guillermoprieto
(via Europe)

Samba: Resistance in Motion
(Arts and Politics of the Everyday)

by Barbara Browning
(via UK, via Europe)

The Social History of the Brazilian Samba
by Lisa Shaw
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Cuba

Essays on Cuban Music:
North American and Cuban Perspectives

by Peter Manuel (Editor)
(via UK)

The Music of Santeria:
Traditional Rhythms of the Bata Drums

by John Amira, Steven Cornelius

The Roots of Salsa:
The History of Cuban Music

by Cristobal Diaz Ayala

Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba
by Yvonne Daniel
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Dominican Republic

Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music
by Deborah Pacini Hernandez
(via UK, via Europe)

Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
by Paul Austerlitz, Robert Farris Thompson
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Mexico
(See also TEJANO MUSIC, below)

Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs
by John Bierhorst (Editor)
(via UK)

Los Mariachis
by Patricia Harpole
Book and Audio Cassette

Mexican Folk Dances (World Dance Series)
by Debbie Cavalier (Editor)

New! Poetry and Violence: The Ballad
Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica

by John Holmes McDowell

Regional Dances of Mexico
by Edith Johnston Kendrick

 

Peru

Moving Away from Silence:
Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the
Experience of Urban Migration

by Thomas Turino
(via UK)

 

Tejano Music

The Billboard Guide to Tejano
and Regional Mexican Music

by Ramiro Burr
(via UK, via Europe)

Musica Tejana:
The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation

by Manuel H. Pena
(via UK, via Europe)

A Texas-Mexican Cancionero:
Folksongs of the Lower Border

by Americo Paredes, Manuel Pena
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Venezuela

Funeral Music and Customs in Venezuela
by Sharon. Girard

Music of the Warao of Venezuela:
Song People of the Rain Forest

by Dale A. Olsen
(via UK, via Europe)