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Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics By Carol A. Hess. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

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Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics By Carol A. Hess. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2025

Stanley V. Kleppinger
Stanley V. Kleppinger*
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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Journal of the Society for American Music , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 Pollack, Howard. Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1999, 223–33.

2 Copland, Aaron and Vivian Perlis. Copland: 1900–1942. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984; and Copland: since 1943. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1989. These two volumes were reprinted as one under the title The Complete Copland by Pendragon Press (Hilldale, NY) in 2013.

3 Hess, Carol A. Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

4 Copland’s other extended (and privately funded) trips to Mexico—one of which inspired El Salón México (1936)—do not receive extensive treatment by Hess. See Pollack, Aaron Copland, 223–28.

5 DeLapp-Birkett, Jennifer. “Aaron Copland and the Politics of Twelve-Tone Composition in the Early Cold War United States,” Journal of Musicological Research 27, no. 1 (2008): 31–62.

6 Metzer, David. “‘Spurned Love’: Eroticism and Abstraction in the Early Works of Aaron Copland,” Journal of Musicology 15, no. 4 (October 1997): 417–43.

7 Copland, Aaron and Vivian Perlis. The Complete Copland. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2013; Copland, Aaron. Our New Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1941.