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ceramic flute Flute, slip-painted ceramic, Nopiloa, southern Veracruz, Mexico, 300–500 ce; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 35.56 × 17.15 × 10.80 cm.

Latin American music

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Gerard Béhague
Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, The Virginia Murchison Regents Professor in Fine Arts at University of Texas at Austin. Editor of Latin American Music Review; author of Music in Latin...
Gerard Béhague
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Latin American music, musical traditions of Mexico, Central America, and the portions of South America and the Caribbean colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese. These traditions reflect the distinctive mixtures of Native American, African, and European influences that have shifted throughout the region over time. This article surveys religious, folk, and art (informally, classical) music through time and over the hemisphere. After a brief discussion of the uses of music in preconquest cultures (for...

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