Charles Seeger's Leitmotifs on Latin America

Extract

Of Seeger's eighty-three published papers listed in the bibliography that he himself prepared for his 1977 volume of collected essays (Seeger 1977:345–49), three seminal monographs written over a period of fifteen years (1946–61) condense his views on Latin America. These are “Music and Musicology in the New World 1946” (1977:211–21), “Music and Society: Some New-World Evidence of Their Relationship” (1951, revised 1952; [1977]:182–94), and “The Cultivation of Various European Traditions of Music in the New World” (1961; [1977]: 195–210). They will be referred to hereinafter by year of first publication (i.e., 1946,1952, and 1961, resp.) with page number references cited from the 1977 source which is more readily available.