A Latin American Ear

Abstract

This essay reviews the following works: Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America. Edited by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. Madrid. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 343. $41.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780190842758. Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins. By David F. Garcia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 360. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822363705. Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music. By Matthew B. Karush. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 268. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822362364. Entre géneros y sexualidades: Tango, baile, cultura popular. By Mercedes Liska. Buenos Aires: Milena Caserola, 2018. Pp. 172. $32.90 paperback. ISBN: 9789874010021. Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. By Ana María Ochoa Gautier. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 266. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822357513. Oscar Alemán: La guitarra embrujada. SergioPujol. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2015. Pp. 340. ISBN: 9789504945628. Valentino en Buenos Aires: Los años veinte y el espectáculo. By Sergio Pujol. Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical, 2016. (1st ed. 1994.) Pp. 224. ISBN: 9789873823084.