Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. The book addresses such topics as popular music, post-colonialism, women in Latin American music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction through music. It contributes to the development of paradigms of cultural analysis that originated outside of Latin America by testing them in the Latin American musical context, while also exploring how specifically Latin American models can contribute to broader cultural analysis.

Juan Pablo González is director of the Alberto Hurtado University Music Institute and affiliate of the Catholic University of Chile Institute of History.

Acknowledgments
Preface to the English edition
Introduction

I. Musicology and Latin America
II. The Multidisciplinary Turn
III. Postcolonial Listening
IV. Popular Music Studies
V. From Song-Object to Song-Process
VI. Multiple Origins: "Martian Cutie" Travels the Earth
VII. Women Take the Stage
VIII. Tradition, Modernity, and the Avant-garde: From the Conservatory to Víctor Jara
IX. Primitive Avant-garde: Los Jaivas and the Chilean Counterculture
X. Mass Counterculture under Military Dictatorships-Brazil and Chile
XI. Folk Music and Globalization: Expanding Roots across Space and Time

Afterword to the English edition
Works cited
Index
About the Author and Translator