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Article: Bridging South America and the United States in black music research.
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Just as the idea of a "Latin America" as a symbolic construction of general identity is politically problematic, the concept of musical boundaries and borders within it is equally perplexing. Latin-American scholars have insisted on setting boundaries of musical traditions according to the existing social stratification at a given time and space. Most have perceived those traditions in a four-part model of stratification: "primitive" traditional indigenous communities, folk-rural-peasant groups, urban popular mestizo groups, and dominating elite urban groups. The basic difficulties with such a criterion of classification are that stratification is not fixed and stable and ...