Interconnected Ibero-American music, paths, circuits and networks. Javier Marín-López, Montserrat Capelán and Paulo Castagna (eds.). Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert, Editions of Iberoamericana 148, 2023

Abstract

The book Interconnected Ibero-American Music, Paths, Circuits, and Networks, generated from the Third Congress of the Working Commission “Music and American Studies” of the Spanish Society of Musicology (MUSAM / SEdeM) held in Santiago de Compostela in October 2021, explores the networks of musical exchange from the colonial era to the present in a Latin America marked by the process of hybridization of three worlds: the indigenous, the African, and the European.¹ Through twenty-five works by authors based in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Portugal, and Puerto Rico, the aim is to overcome a fragmented vision of the musical history of the region and establish connections between different territories and periods, promoting supranational exchange networks whose epicenter is music.