Schedule of Readings & Meetings

Week 2 Music and the Spanish Colonization

Required Readings:

• Moore, Robin. “Music and the Spanish Colonization” in Music of the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

• de Arce, Daniel Mendoza. 1989. "Music in the Constitutions of the Diocese of Puerto Rico (1604)". Latin American Music Review / Revista De Música Latinoamericana. 9, no. 2: 233.

• Donald Thompson, “The Cronistas de Indias Revisited: Historical Reports, Archaeological Evidence, and Literary and Artistic Traces of Indigenous Music and Dance in the Greater Antilles at the Time of the Conquista,” Latin American Music Review Vol.14, nº2 (Fall/Winter 1993): 181-201.

• Allende-Goitía, Noel. 2006. "The Mulatta, the Bishop, and Dances in the Cathedral: Race, Music, and Power Relations in Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico". Black Music Research Journal. 26, no. 2: 137-164

• Allende-Goitía, Noel. 2006. "The Mulatta, the Bishop, and Dances in the Cathedral: Race, Music, and Power Relations in Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico". Black Music Research Journal. 26, no. 2: 137-164

Week 5 Creole Dance Music I: Contemporary Merengue in the Dominican Republic

Required Readings:

• Moore, Robin “Creolized Dance Music” Music of the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

• Hutchinson, Sydney. "Entangled Rhythms of a Conflicted Island: Digging up the Buried Histories of Dominican Folk Music." Resonances , vol. 20, no. 39, July-Nov. 2016, 139-154. 

• Austerlitz, Paul. “Music and the State: Merengue during the Era of Trujillo, 1930-1966” in. Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.

• Hutchinson, Sydney. "Merengue on the move: Making music, place, and community in the típico world.” 2016. In Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music, edited by Christian Spencer and Julio Mendívil. New York: Routledge, 2016, 113-124.

Virtual Concert Review due on 09/24/23

Week 8 Transnational Musical Circuits I: Contradanza, Danza and Danzón in Cuba

Required Readings:

• Moore, Robin “Transnational Caribbean Music” in Music of the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

• Peter Manuel, "Introduction" & “Cuba: From Contradanza to Danzón” in Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press, 2011.

• Robin D. Moore (2016) "The Danzón, North American Racial Discourses, and Reflections on Early Jazz," Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 25:3, 321-337, DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2016.1167019 

• Robin Moore, “Improvisation in the Danzón and Its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz” in Persephone Braham, 2016. African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States

Week 11 Global Afro Diasporic Music of the Hispanic Caribbean: Hip Hop, Reggueatón and Latin Trap

Required Readings:

• Rivera-Rideau. “Iron Fist Against Rap” and “The Perils of Perreo” in Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico. 2015.

• Pacini Hernandez, Deborah, “Dominicans in the mix: reflections on Dominican identity, race, and reggaetón” in Reggaeton, edited by Raquel Rivera, Wayne Marshal and Debora Pacini Hernández, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2009

Virtual Concert Review 2 due on 11/05/23

Week 14 Dialogues with Blackness

Required Readings:

• "Dialogues with Blackness" in Music of the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010

• The Hazards of Hybridity: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mambo, and Revolution" in Borge, Jason. 2018. Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz. Duke University Press.