Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. The book addresses such topics as popular music, post-colonialism, women in Latin American music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction through music. It contributes to the development of paradigms of cultural analysis that originated outside of Latin Ame...

Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s underwent a profound and often violent process of social change. From the Cuban Revolution to the massive guerrilla movements in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, and most of Central America, to the democratic socialist experiment of Allende in Chile, to the increased popularity of socialist-oriented parties in Uruguay, or para-socialist movements, such as the Juventud Peronista in Argentina, the idea of social change was in the air. Although this top...

What if the reason why procrastination doesn’t go away is because it’s not supposed to? Just imagine what would happen to your motivation and confidence if you thought of your procrastination as a mark of intelligence rather than a sign of incompetence. Or if you said to yourself while procrastinating, “wow, isn’t this interesting?” rather than “there is something wrong with me!” Procrastinate Now challenges everything we think we know about procrastination by taking a uniq...