Soundscapes from the Americas - Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance

Dedicated to the late Gerard B-gue (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1979-81, editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology, from 1974-78, and founder and editor of the trilingual Latin American Music Review from 1980 until his death, B-gue also established the ethnomusicology graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974, thereby influencing the training and thinking of dozens of the field-s practitioners. Among these are the volume-s eight authors, whose contributions reflect the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of B-gue-s scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volume-s seven c