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The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part I provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Latin America and describes th (more…)

Amazon.com Review

In a time when school music classes (if they exist at all) teach their students the finer points of the themes from The Twilight Zone and Jaws instead of real music; when classical radio stations are converted to Lite Rock or switched to a “top 100″ classical jukebox format; and when even churches increasingly favor banal “Jesus Is My Boyfriend”-style slop instead of Bach, Mozart, and Vaughn Williams, classical music may legitimately be seen as an endange (more…)

In his informed and indispensable guide, National Public Radio’s Ted Libbey takes listeners by the hand through the classical repertory to build a music library. Now, five years after its original publication – with five years of new performances to consider, new releases to review. reissues to re-evaluate – Mr. Libbey has completely revised and updated the book. While sticking to the essential 300 works, there are now one-third new selections and reviews, and a 50% chan (more…)