Research Guides: SPAN 4570 Latin Soundscapes: Musical Cultures of Latin America: Getting Started

About the Music & Dance Library

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Music & Dance faculty and staff are always ready to help you. Ask us!

Alan Green (Head, Music & Dance Library) 614-292-2319 green.200 @osu.edu

Sean Ferguson 614-688-0127 ferguson.36@osu.edu

Jarod Ogier 614-292-8498 ogier.5@osu.edu

Michael Murray 614-688-0163 murray.348@osu.edu

Gretchen Atkinson 614-292-2319 atkinson.6@osu.edu

Vicki Underwood 614-292-2319 underwood.3@osu.edu

Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies Librarian

Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros

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Contact:

305H Thompson Library,
1858 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210

614-688-1725

Subjects: International & Area Studies

Online Sources on Latin American/Latino Music

NPR Alt Latino Radio
From Latin rock to psychedelic cumbia and everything in between, Alt.Latino Radio spins a genre-bending mix where tradition meets innovation.
Radio UNAM Cien Años de Tango
Charla ilustrada con piezas musicales de tango y ritmos afines como milongas, valses criollos y folclor argentino y uruguayo.
Radio UNAM Hecho en Brasil
Compositores e intérpretes brasileños de música de concierto. Una serie a cargo del embajador João Solano, cónsul general de Brasil en México.
Radio UNAM Ritmos latinoamericanos
Música folclórica y popular de los países de América Latina.Se transmitió del 1 de julio de 1979 al 31 de octubre de 1982.
Latin Grammy

Welcome

This guide is designed to highlight select resources for the SPAN 4570 course available at The Ohio State University Library.

Subject librarians are available for research consultations throughout the academic year. Contact us via email with a brief description of your research project.

Reference Sources

The Music Traditional in Latin America
An annotated bibliography by Kristin Mann from the Oxford Bibliography database. Provides secondary sources for the study of music from pre-columbian era to present.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This link opens in a new window

New Grove Dictionary of American Music '...superb and remarkably exhaustive.' Robert Henderson, Daily Telegraph '...captures the totality of American music as never before.' D.W.Krummel, Choice '...represents a lexicographic landmark in musical literature. It is destined to become a classic.' Arthur Cohn, Symphony Magazine Contact: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Brunel Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 2XS. Tel: (0256) 817245
Call Number: 18th Ave 2nd Floor ML101.U6 N48 1986
South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Call Number: 18th Ave 2nd Floor Music/Dance ML100 .G16 1998

Resources

Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
Popular Music Library This link opens in a new window
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
NAXOS Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window NAXOS Music Library Jazz contains over 23,000 tracks from Fantasy Records of jazz and rhythm and blues. Over 1800 albums and over 500 artists are represented in the database.
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Dance Online: Dance in Video Vol 1 & II This link opens in a new window Searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role, ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. Database users may create their own custom playlists and video clips.

Music Databases

Rock's Backpages This link opens in a new window
A database of rock journalism online, covering all genres of popular music from the 1950s to the present. Features reviews, interviews and features from publication in the US and UK.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full-text content from more than 200 periodicals from 50 countries in 40 languages.
International Index to Music Periodicals [Selected Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Music Index This link opens in a new window
A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

Key Online Databases-Journal Articles

Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
HAPI is a source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
HLAS contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

General Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals on all subjects and includes much full text. Content detail
JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics. Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
Ethnic NewsWatch [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspapers published by and for leading American ethnic groups, and provides information on topics not covered by the mainstream press. Additionally, it provides ethnic perspectives of topics of national interest that may vary from what is presented in the mainstream press.

Below is a sample of journals that are available online. For a complete list of print and ejournals available, please follow this link:

Latin American music review
Explores the historical, ethnographic, & socio-cultural dimensions of Latin American music in Latin American social groups, including the Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, & Portuguese populations in the United States.
Luso-Brazilian Review
Brings out scholarship on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African cultures, with emphasis on scholarly works in literature, history, and the social sciences.
Latin American Research Review
The Latin American Research Review is the premier interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hispanic America Historical Review
HAHR's comprehensive book review section provides commentary, ranging from brief notices to review essays, on every facet of scholarship on Latin American history and culture.
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Contains original research papers on topics of current interest on Latin America from all academic disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.
Journal of Latin American Studies
Presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in development studies, economics, geography, history, politics and international relations, public policy, sociology and social anthropology.
Latin American Perspectives
Discusses critical issues relating to capitalism, imperialism, and socialism as they affect individuals, societies, and nations.
Latino Studies
Latino Studies aims to advance interdisciplinary scholarship about the lived experience and struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equity, representation, and social justice.
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies
Aztlán presents original research that is relevant to or informed by the Chicano experience.

This is a small sample of books available on Latin American music from the LAT Collection at Ohio State. To access other books, please visit the library catalog.

Made in Latin America
Made in Latin America serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Latin American popular music.
Rock the Nation
"Rock the Nation" analyzes Latino/a identity through rock 'n' roll music and its deep Latin/o history.
A Cultural History of Latin America The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History on literature, music, and the visual arts in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays explore: literature, music, and art from c. 1820 to 1870 and from 1870 to c. 1920; Latin American fiction from the regionalist novel between the Wars to the post-War New Novel, from the 'Boom' to the 'Post-Boom'; twentieth-century Latin American poetry; indigenous literatures and culture in the twentieth century; twentieth-century Latin American music; architecture and art in twentieth-century Latin America, and the history of cinema in Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.
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Musicians in Transit
Examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century:
La Verdad
Examining hip hop movements in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Aymara, and Creole, La Verdad demonstrates that Latino hip hop is a multilingual expression of gender, indigeneity, activism, and social justice.
Afro-Latin@s in Movement
This book examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism, and diaspora in the Americas.

Tips on Searching Catalogs

You can search by KEYWORDS, but you may get more satisfactory results by AUTHOR, SUBJECT, or TITLE searching:

By dancer or company or choreographer (AUTHOR search). Examples: Baryshnikov, Mikhail or Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater or Tharp, Twyla
By "unique" title (TITLE or KEYWORD search). Examples: West Side Story or Billy the Kid (not generic titles like Symphony no. 1 or Concerto in D)
By dance type/form (SUBJECT search). Examples: ballets or tangos
By instrumentation (SUBJECT or KEYWORD search), Example: flute and guitar music
By performers (AUTHOR search). Examples: Cleveland Orchestra or Nureyev, Rudolf

You can narrow the results of your search to sound recordings, videos, or books, etc., by first performing an AUTHOR, TITLE, SUBJECT, or KEYWORD search, and then choosing the LIMIT /SORT or MODIFY SEARCH option and selecting MATERIAL TYPE, then MUSIC RECORD (for recordings) or SERIAL/JOURNAL (for magazines) or BOOK, and then clicking FIND or SUBMIT.

Latin musical events in Columbus

Program of Latino/a Studies Events
Center for Latin American Studies
The mission of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) is to serve, facilitate, and stimulate the teaching, research, and intellectual interests of OSU faculty and students in all matters dealing with Latin America.
Festival Latino
Festival Latino is a free, family-friendly event and the largest Latin event in Ohio. This event takes place annually in August.
Argentine Tango in Columbus (ATCO)
Salsa Club at OSU
Folclor Hispano
Andean Musical Ensemble

Music at OSU

Music & Dance Librarian

Alan Green

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Subjects: Dance, Music

Misc

SEM Student News
SEM Student News is an official, biannual publication of the Society for Ethnomusicology, created and run by students.