Soundscapes from the Americas

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