Freshman Seminar 33q: Global Pop Music

9. South America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

NOTE: These lists are intended to be representative only and to pique curiosity. These basic sources can help you narrow down a topic and find useful keyword search terms to try in Hollis and databases (Sections 2 and 3).

Selected online:

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: South America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (Volume 2)

Diaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection

Latin America, the Caribbean, South America (University of Washington Libraries ethnomusicology portal)


Selected print:

The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music
edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy
Loeb Music Seeger Room [CDs accompany book shelved under ML199.G36 2008] 

Rockin’ las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America
ed by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Héctor Fernández-L’Hoeste, and Eric Zolov
Location: Loeb Music ML3917.L27 R63 2004 

Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music edited by Lise Waxer
Location 1: Loeb Music ML3535.5 .W39 2002 
Location 2: Tozzer TECH. Si 89 

Zouk: World Music in the West Indies
by Jocelyne Guilbault with Gage Averill, Édouard Benoit, Gregory Rabess
Location 1: Lamont Morse Music & Media ML3485.5 .G84 1993
Location 2: Loeb Music Seeger Room ML3485.5 .G84 1993 [Sound disc AWM CD 13041]
Location 3: Tozzer S.A. G 943 z [Inquire at Circulation Desk for compact disc]
Location 4: Widener Harvard Depository XVP 105 [ConsultCirc. Desk for text]

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