The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 3 is one of five volumes within the 'Locations' strand of the series. This volume discusses popular music of the Caribbean and Latin America in a historical, geographical, demographical, political, economic, and cultural context. It also examines the genres associated with the region, significant venues such as theatres, dance halls, clubs and bars, and notable performers and other practitioners such as producers, engineers, and technological innovators. The volume consists of over 90 entries written by more than 60 leading popular music scholars and practitioners, including Jose de Menezes Bastos on Brazil and Peter Manuel on India and the Caribbean Islands. This and all other volumes of the Encyclopedia are now available through an online version of the Encyclopedia: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/encyclopedia-work?docid=BPM_reference_EPMOW. A general search function for the whole Encyclopedia is also available on this site. A subscription is required to access individual entries. Please see: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/for-librarians.
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 3 is one of five volumes within the 'Locations' strand of the series. This volume discusses popular music of the Caribbean and Latin America in a historical, geographical, demographical, political, economic, and cultural context. It also examines the genres associated with the region, significant venues such as theatres, dance halls, clubs and bars, and notable performers and other practitioners such as producers, engineers, and technological innovators. The volume consists of over 90 entries written by more than 60 leading popular music scholars and practitioners, including Jose de Menezes Bastos on Brazil and Peter Manuel on India and the Caribbean Islands. This and all other volumes of the Encyclopedia are now available through an online version of the Encyclopedia: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/encyclopedia-work?docid=BPM_reference_EPMOW. A general search function for the whole Encyclopedia is also available on this site. A subscription is required to access individual entries. Please see: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/for-librarians.
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Maps Abbreviations
Part I: Caribbean
1. Caribbean
The Caribbean Islands
Peter Manuel
Anguilla
Nanette de Jong
Antigua and Barbuda
Nanette de Jong
Aruba
Victoria M. Razak
Bahamas
Timothy Rommen
Barbados
Curwen Best
Cuba
Olavo Alen Rodriguez and Jan Fairley
Cities:
Guantanamo - Olavo Alen Rodriguez
La Habana (Havana) - Jan Fairley with Olavo Alen Rodriguez
Dominica
Kenneth Bilby
Dominican Republic
Paul Austerlitz
Grenada
Polly Bugros-McLean
Guadeloupe
Dominique O. Cyrille
Haiti
Gage Averill
Jamaica
Kevin O'Brien Chang with Robert Witmer and Len McCarthy
Martinique
Dominique O. Cyrille
Montserrat
Nanette de Jong
Netherlands Antilles
Victoria M. Razak
Puerto Rico
Marisol Berrios-Miranda
Cities:
San Juan - Marisol Berrios-Miranda
St Lucia
Yves Renard
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Nanette de Jong
Trinidad and Tobago
Shannon Dudley
Virgin Islands (US)
Daniel Sheehy
Part II: Latin America
2. Mexico
Mexico
Mark Pedelty
Cities:
Acapulco and Guerrero
Mark Pedelty
Culiacan
Ramiro Burr with Doug Shannon
Durango
Mark Pedelty
Guadalajara
Mark Pedelty
Mazatlan
Ramiro Burr with Doug Shannon
Mexico City
Eric Zolov
Monterrey
Jose Juan Olvera Gudin-o (Trans. Helena Simonett)
Tijuana
Ron Dunn
Veracruz
Daniel Sheehy
3. Central America
Central America (gen.)
T.M. Scruggs
Belize
Oliver Greene
Costa Rica
Laura Cervantes-Gamboa
El Salvador
Christopher T.R. Bradler
Guatemala
Igor de Gandarias (Trans. Leuten Rojas)
Honduras
Carlos Agurcia
Nicaragua
T.M. Scruggs
Panama
T.M. Scruggs
4. South America
Argentina
Leonardo J. Waisman and Marisa Restiff
Cities:
Buenos Aires
Pablo Kohan with Ricardo Salton
Cordoba
Leonardo J. Waisman
Rosario
Omar Corrado
Salta
Omar Corrado
Santa Fe
Omar Corrado
Bolivia
Sari Pekkola and Oscar Garcia with the Editors
Brazil
Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos with Allan de Paula Oliveira
(Discographies)
Regions:
Central-West
Maria Ignez Cruz Mello and Deise Lucy Oliveira Montardo
North
Sergio I. Gil Braga
Northeast
Elba Braga Ramalho
Southeast
Samuel Araujo
Cities:
Belem
Sergio I. Gil Braga
Belo Horizonte
Silvia de O. Beraldo
Brasilia
Luis Roberto M. Pinheiro
Curitiba
Allan de Paula Oliveira
Fortaleza
Wander Nunes Frota
Manaus
Sergio I. Gil Braga
Porto Alegre
Maria Elizabeth Lucas
Recife
Tania Cristina Lima and Carlos Sandroni (Trans. Sinclair
Robinson)
Rio de Janeiro
Samuel Araujo
Salvador
Michael Shade
Sao Luis
Mundicarmo M.R. Ferretti
Sao Paulo
Acacio T. de C. Piedade
Chile
Cities:
Santiago de Chile
Juan Pablo Gonzalez with Jan Fairley
Valparaiso
Juan Pablo Gonzalez with Jan Fairley
Colombia
Cities:
Barranquilla
Peter Wade
Bogota
Adolfo Gonzalez Henriquez
Cali
Adolfo Gonzalez Henriquez
Cartagena
Adolfo Gonzalez Henriquez
Medellin
Adolfo Gonzalez Henriquez
Ecuador
Cities:
Guayaquil
Ketty Wong
Quito
Ketty Wong
French Guiana
Kenneth Bilby
Guyana
Ray H. Seales
Paraguay
Daniel Luzko
Peru
Cities:
Arequipa
Raul R. Romero
Ayacucho
Jonathan Ritter
Trujillo
Jonathan Ritter
Suriname
Rein Spoorman
Uruguay
Cities:
Montevideo
Coriun Aharonian
Venezuela
Carlos E. Giminez
Index
This Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World volume is on the Caribbean and Latin America.
David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular
Music and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association
for the Study of Popular Music). Together with the blues scholar
Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and
has worked on the project since that time.
John Shepherd is Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President
(Academic) and Chancellor’s Professor of Music and Sociology at
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. In 2000, he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his role
“as a leading architect of a post-War critical musicology.”
Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music
and a former editor of Music Week. He is a former Research Fellow
at the University of Westminster, UK where he conducted research on
the music industry.
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