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Gaita (Venezuela)

Robert T. Carroll

Robert T. Carroll

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In Venezuela, gaita is a term used most commonly for a genre of Christmas-season party songs that address history and geography, regional pride, religious devotion and political protest. The word itself is related to the terms for various...

Arca: Mute’s Mutant

Michael Waugh

Michael Waugh

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Mute Records : Artists, Business, History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Everything is a performance, but that just leaves us with the awareness to shape what we desire.Arca (2015b)Historically, the roster of Mute Records has been replete with transgressive musicians with diverse identities, from...

Onda Nueva

Nelson Blanco Manzo

Nelson Blanco Manzo

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Onda nueva (‘New Wave’) is a Venezuelan musical genre created in the early 1970s by noted composer and arranger Aldemaro Romero (1928–2007). The appearance of onda nueva was circumstantial: during the recording...

Fusión (in Venezuela)

Emilio Mendoza

Emilio Mendoza

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Fusión and música de fusión are umbrella terms used in Venezuela to denote new compositions by popular music artists and groups who use elements from folk music without producing a recognizable traditional folk piece, and in which formal...

Calipso Venezolano

Emilio Mendoza

Emilio Mendoza

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Calipso venezolano is a style of music used for the Carnival celebrations in Venezuela. The name calipso principally indicates the music that originated from the town of El Callao in the state of Bolívar in the south-east of the country –...

Dande

Victoria Razak

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Victoria Razak

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Harry Croes

Harry Croes

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The dande (dan-day) is a New Year’s greeting in the Caribbean island of Aruba with musical accompaniment performed by groups of traveling musicians who are also called ‘dandes.’ A form unique to Aruba, with roots stretching back...

Décima

María Teresa Novo

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María Teresa Novo

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Rafael Salazar

Rafael Salazar

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Heidi Carolyn Feldman

Heidi Feldman is an AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego’s Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, USA. She served as Volume Editor for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World from 2010 to 2017. In 2007, her book, Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific, earned the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-U.S.’s Woody Guthrie Prize. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The décima, a poetic form developed in Spain in the 1500s and brought to Latin America during the Conquest, consists of stanzas of ten octosyllabic lines. In the Hispanic Americas, décima is also known as espinela in recognition...

Joropo

Katrin Lengwinat

Katrin Lengwinat

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Joropo is a folkloric and popular genre with many regional variants, widespread throughout Venezuela and the Colombian plains. It is performed at rural dance festivals where friends and relatives come together to enjoy joropo music...

Merengue Venezolano

Emilio Mendoza

Emilio Mendoza

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The merengue venezolano is a twentieth-century dance music from Venezuela, with a characteristic attractive rhythm. It is a completely different genre from the merengue of the Dominican Republic in the way of its tempo, rhythm, instruments,...

Ritmo Orquídea

Nelson Blanco Manzo

Nelson Blanco Manzo

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In the early 1960s, Venezuelan composer Hugo Blanco created and developed a musical style which he named ‘Orquídea’ (‘Orchid’) after the Venezuelan national flower. Ritmo orquídea (‘Orchid Rhythm’) features the melodic and timbral essence...