Jaime Donoso A. Introducción a la música en veinte lecturas. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura y Bellas Artes, Instituto de Música, Colección de Textos Universitarios, 1997, 139 pp

Looking for the Past: History and Change in Traditional Music Studies in Chile (1990–2020)

“…The above confusion of concepts and consideration of facts over processes prevented, whether totally or partially, the study of five dimensions of scholarship that I consider important. The first is the ideologies and techniques involved in collecting music, as Grebe (1976), Catalán and Torres (1983), Rondón (2001), and Torres (2005) note. The second is the issues of aurality, authenticity, and social purification created by the sacred or “untouchable” character of rural folklore (Miñana 2000; Ochoa 2006).…”