Explores the historical origins and cultural impact of popular music, ..and the social, political, and economic context of different musical genres. Lengthy historical essays with numerous references.
A guide for researchers to the best available scholarship in the fields of music (e.g., review articles cover principal scholarship on Cuban classical music, salsa, rumba, jazz, hip-hop).
Index of early music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, and advertisements. Useful as a primary source for 19th-century Latin American musical experiences.
Streaming audio service of the complete recording catalogs of the Naxos label and numerous other labels. The main genres covered are classical, world, folk, jazz, and Chinese music.
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Film periodicals from the late 1890s to the “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960). It also includes primary sources such as Mexican cultural journals of the era (e.g., El mundo ilustrado for 1902-1910) and scrapbooks of film reviews, movie stills, programs and advertisements from the archives of Filmoteca in Mexico (UNAM). Covers material relating to film and media studies, Latin American Studies, music, and Mexican cultural studies.
Contains a variety of information about Latin American and Caribbean film, from legislation to festivals to the latest news. Created and maintained by the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo.
Jesús Alonso-Regalado, from the University of Albany, lists various online resources in his guide for videos and Latin American TV that are freely available online.
On-demand streaming video service for documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases. Films under a current license agreement are available for immediate viewing. Other films may require a request through the Kanopy site. Viewing films in a group forum is permitted as long as the viewing is by Vanderbilt authorized viewers only (current faculty, staff, or students) and it is not for commercial benefit (i.e. no admission costs are charged and no profit is made from the screening).
Documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, and thousands of award-winning films.
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