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Music and Dance in Puerto Rico from the Age of Columbus to Modern Times
Thompson, Donald; Thompson, Annie F.
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Hardback. The breadth of coverage and depth of annotations will make this volume useful to musicologists, folklorists, ballet scholars, teachers, and general readers. Subject and author indexes included. Series: Studies in Latin American Music. Num Pages: 339 pages, Plans, transparencies, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KJP; ASD; AV; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
The bibliography of almost five centuries of music and dance in Puerto Rice has fallen into the cracks of both national and international reporting. The Thompsons redress this situation, offering 995 richly annotated entries on reference sources, biography, folk music and dance, the Puerto Rican Danza, La borinquena (the Commonwealth's official anthem), and the earliest mentions of native music and dance in the Antilles at the time of the Conquest. The work's breadth of coverage and depth of annotations will make it useful to musicologists, folklorists, ballet scholars, teachers, and general readers. Subject and author indexes included.
The bibliography of almost five centuries of music and dance in Puerto Rice has fallen into the cracks of both national and international reporting. The Thompsons redress this situation, offering 995 richly annotated entries on reference sources, biography, folk music and dance, the Puerto Rican Danza, La borinquena (the Commonwealth's official anthem), and the earliest mentions of native music and dance in the Antilles at the time of the Conquest. The work's breadth of coverage and depth of annotations will make it useful to musicologists, folklorists, ballet scholars, teachers, and general readers. Subject and author indexes included.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Latin American Music
Number of Pages
339
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810825154
SKU
V9780810825154
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About Thompson, Donald; Thompson, Annie F.
Donald Thompson (Ph.D., University of Iowa) was one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico Music Department, which he later chaired. He is the compiler of Music in Puerto Rico: An Anthology, also from Scarecrow Press. Annie F. Thompson (Ph.D., Florida State), formerly a music librarian, directs the University of Puerto Rico SLIS. Her Checklist of Musical References ... Read more
Reviews for Music and Dance in Puerto Rico from the Age of Columbus to Modern Times
...a 'must' for musicologists, folklorists, and students and teachers of dance....an indispensable aid to investigators of Puerto Rican culture.
Sonneck Society Bulletin
...an important reference...should remain a clasic bibliographic source for many years ahead. The work's thoroughness in coverage and exceptional quality of scholarship assures sustained value to musicologists, folklorists, teachers, Hispano-Americans, American scholars and general readers.
... Read more
Sonneck Society Bulletin
...an important reference...should remain a clasic bibliographic source for many years ahead. The work's thoroughness in coverage and exceptional quality of scholarship assures sustained value to musicologists, folklorists, teachers, Hispano-Americans, American scholars and general readers.
... Read more