Review| December 01 2021 The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History, by Pablo Palomino The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History, by PabloPalomino. Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi, 272 pp. Carolina Santamaría-Delgado Carolina Santamaría-Delgado CAROLINA SANTAMARÍA-DELGADO is Associate Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Antioquia (Colombia). She has written extensively on the historical connections between the music industry and the media in Colombia in the twentieth century. She is coauthor of the book Travesías por la tierra del olvido: Modernidad y colombianidad en la música de Carlos Vives y La Provincia (Editorial PUJ, 2014), and winner of the 2015 Alejandro Ángel Escobar Award for the best social science research in Colombia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (3): 659–663. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.659 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Carolina Santamaría-Delgado; The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History, by Pablo Palomino. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2021; 74 (3): 659–663. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.659 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search “Latin American music” is such a widely used term that it would seem to be a “no-brainer”: look for it in Google and you will find a ready definition. What it really means, however, presents a challenging issue for (ethno)musicologists like myself who, on a daily basis, work within the limits of such an undetermined field of study. In fact, what is Latin America? Who defined it? Why and when? The problematic nature of these questions emerges clearly when one considers that many universities in the United States have a center or an institute for Latin American Studies, and that these kinds of institutions are strangely absent from most universities located to the south of the Río Bravo (or Rio Grande, as it is known in the North). Was Latin America a conceptual category built by insiders or by outsiders? The work of cultural historians such as Pablo Palomino reveals... You do not currently have access to this content.