| Contents |
Chroniclers of conquest: aboriginal music observed and envisioned. A Taino musical instrument. "La relacion de Fray Ramon" (1495-1498?) ; An early chronicler. Apologetica historia de las Indias (1527-1550) / Fray Bartolome de Las Casas -- The Areito. Historia general y natural de las Indias (1535) / Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes ; Decadas del Nuevo Mundo (1511-1530) / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera ; Hispania victrix (1552) / Francisco Lopez de Gomara -- Fray Ramon revisited. Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos (1601-1615) / Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas -- Mountain, plain, and town: traditional folk and popular music. A dance. Historia geografica, civil y politica de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico (1788) / Fray Inigo Abbad y Lasierra -- Slave life. "Regalmento. Sobre la educacion, trato y ocupaciones que deben dar a sus esclavos los duenos y mayordomos en esta Isla" (1826) -- Puerto Rican dances and native musical instruments. El gibaro (1849) / Manuel A. Alonso -- Carnival. "El Carnaval en las Antillas" (1879) / Luis Bonafoux -- Folk instruments and the decline of traditional dances. El campesino puertorriqueno (1887) / Francisco del Valle Atiles -- A professional musician's view. "Breve memoria sobre los cantos populares de Puerto-Rico" (1893) / Julio Carlos de Arteaga -- A folk dance. "El seis enojao" (1922) / Manuel Fernandez Juncos -- Nineteenth-century musical life. A visiting virtuoso honored: Gottschalk in Ponce. "Baile" (1858) -- Saint John's day mass in the cathedral. Las Fiestas de San Juan (1868) / Federico Asenjo y Arteaga -- An Italian opera company. "Revista y critica teatral" (1877) / R. S. -- A competition: the Ponce exposition. Puerto Rico en la Feria-Exposicion de Ponce en 1882. Memoria redactada de orden de la junta directiva de la misma (1885) / Jose Ramon Abad -- The philharmonic society. Mis memorias (1880) / Alejandro Tapia y Rivera -- The San Juan municipal theater. "El teatro" (1883) / Manuel Fernandez Juncos -- Music and advertising in nineteenth-century San Juan. "Musica para anunciar en la sociedad sanjuanera del siglo XIX" (1987) / Edgardo Diaz Diaz -- The Puerto Rican Danza. The Danza controversy: an early skirmish. Letters to the editor, El Ponceno (1853) -- The dangerous Danza. Cartas puerto-riquenas dirigidas al celebre poeta don Ventura Ruiz Aguilera (1878-1880) / Carlos Penaranda -- The Danza: the traditional view. "La mision social de la danza de Juan Morel Campos" / Amaury Veray -- The Danza: a sociopolitical view. "Ponce, la danza y lo nacional: apuntes para una sociologia de la musica puertorriquena" (1986) / Angel G. Quintero Rivera -- The twentieth century. Concert life. Musical culture at the turn of the century. "Notas musicales" (1906) / La Hija del Caribe (Trinidad Padilla de Sanz) -- 1898 and the change of government. Musica y musicos portorriquenos (1915) / Fernando Callejo Ferrer -- The revival of a tradition: concerts on the plaza. "Tambien los musicos son hijos de Dios" (1934) -- A plea for music in the schools. "Disquisiciones musicales" (1936) / Aristides Chavier -- A government-sponsored symphony orchestra. "La sinfonica y la 'Sinfonieta'" (1948) / Alfredo Matilla Jimeno -- A twentieth-century opera. "Estreno plateado de 'El mensajero de plata'" (1986) / Samuel B. Cherson -- The avant garde. "Grupo fluxus de Puerto Rico" / Francis Schwartz -- The Puerto Rico Casals festival: views and controversies. Early hopes and high ideals. "El significado del festival Casals" (1957) / Rafael Montanez -- 1957: the inaugural concert. "El mejor tributo a Casals" (1957) / Alfredo Matilla Jimeno -- A divergent opinion. "Casals: un agente para la penetracion cultural" (1972) / Rafael Aponte-Ledee -- A composer speaks. "Un festival que se llama Casals" (1973) / Francis Schwartz -- Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico: an overview and a conclusion. "Pablo Casals, 1876-1973" (1994) / Donald Thompson -- Urban popular and commercial music. The songs of Rafael Hernandez. "Puerto Rico en las canciones de Rafael Hernandez" (1939) / Margot Arce -- "Jibaro" dances. "Los 'bailes jibaros'" (1963) / Miguel Melendez Munoz -- Salsa: two early views (1973). "Salsa!" / Manuel Silva Casanova ; "Salsa no es nada nuevo: Curet Alonso" / Manuel Silva Casanova -- The passing of a pioneer. El entierro de Cortijo (1983) / Edgardo Rodriguez Julia -- The passing panorama. Music criticism in Puerto Rico. "La critica musical: origen y desarrollo" (1997) / Sylvia Lamoutte de Iglesias. |
| Abstract |
Puerto Rico's rich musical history, often unavailable to those not fluent in Spanish, is chronicled in this translated text. This book details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus's second voyage to the New World in the late fifteenth century to twentieth-century developments, and explores a variety of topics, including native instruments, the introduction of music in schools, and urban pop and commercial music. Documents from historical figures such as Fray Bartolome de Las Casas and Manuel Alonso have been excerpted and translated. The text also simplifies bibliographical searches, since much of the anthology's material is difficult to locate. This book examines the music that is unique to different geographic regions, including mountains and plains. Thompson's book is a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and magic is born in the form of the salsa. Musicians, historians, students of Spanish, and those interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Ricon life will find Music in Puerto Rico an important resource. |
