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.

| Cover Title page Contents Preface One Hundred Years of Latin American Music Scholarship: An Overview - Helena Simonett (and Michael Marcuzzi) Part One. Academic Lineages, Disciplinary Canons, and Historiographies 1. Music Research in South America 2. Between Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Sixty Years of Folk and Vernacular Music Studies in Colombia 3. Popular Musicology in Latin America: Synthesis of Its Accomplishments, Problems, and Challenges 4. The Construction of History: The Charango in the Collective Memory of Mestizo Ayacucho 5. Decline or Progress? Eighteenth-Century Music and Nineteenth-Century Nationalism 6. The Bambuco, Hybrid Knowledges, and the Academy: A Historical Analysis of the Persistence of Coloniality in Latin America Musical Studies Part Two. Popular Music, Style, and the Social Construction of Genre 7. Notes for a Prehistory of Mambo 8. "I Got Phrasing": Changes in Samba's Melodic Rhythm, 1917–1933 9. Singing Difference: Violeta Parra and Chilean Song 10. The Nuevo Cancionero Movement: A Change of Paradigm in Argentine Folklore 11. Timba, Rumba, and "Appropriation from the Inside" 12. Gender and Brazilian Popular Music: A Study of Female Bands Part Three. Alternate Genealogies, Marginal Ontologies, and Applied Ethnomusicology Javier F. Le 13. Myth, Music, and Dance: The Chicomexochitl 14. Indigenous Music and Identity: Musical Spaces of Urban Mapuche Communities 15. Brazilian Ethnomusicology as Participatory Ethnomusicology: Anxieties Regarding Brazilian Musics 16. Applied Ethnomusicology: A Critical History of Indigenous Music Studies in Mexico 17. Metamorphosis of Afro-Brazilian Performance Traditions: From Cultural Heritage to the Entertainment Industry Contributors Index | Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2017 — Society for Ethnomusicology
|Javier F. León is the director of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and an adjunct professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Helena Simonett is an assistant professor of Latin American studies, adjunct assistant professor of music history and literature, and associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders and the editor of The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!