Pablo Palomino (2021). La invención de la música latinoamericana. Una historia transnacional. Fondo de Cultura Económica

Abstract

How did Latin American music become "Latin American"? With this provocative question, Pablo Palomino begins a book in which he attempts to unravel the origins and different meanings of a concept that brings together very diverse and heterogeneous cultural manifestations, and he does so by reviewing the use of this concept and other similar ones. He concludes that Latin America is a cultural construct, the product of "the sedimentation of projects" in which music plays a fundamental role. Although "its origins were diplomatic and political, ... it was music that provided the stage on which education, commerce, and popular culture spread it as a regional entity throughout the world."