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Cover of Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 1

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 1

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Cover of Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Vol. 1

Malena Kuss · 2004 · Nonfiction

Why we chose it: The opening volume of a monumental encyclopedic history of the region’s music, this one devoted to the performing beliefs of Indigenous peoples across the Americas and the Caribbean basin. A dense, authoritative reference for musical cosmologies.

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