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Celebrating Culture: Space, Symbols, and Tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean Celebrating Culture: Space, Symbols, and Tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean Celebrando la cultura: espacios, símbolos, y tradiciones de América Latina y del Caribe SEMINAR ON THE ACQUISITION OF LATIN AMERICAN LIBRARY MATERIALS XLVIII "j t ROLD B. LB» LIBRARY iAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO, UTAH j Celebrating Culture/Celebrando la cultura SALALM Secretariat Benson Latin American Collection The General Libraries The University of Texas at Austin Celebrating Culture: Space, Symbols, and Tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean Celebrando la cultura: espacios, símbolos, y tradiciones de América Latina y del Caribe Papers of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the SEMINAR ON THE ACQUISITION OF LATIN AMERICAN LIBRARY MATERIALS Cartagena de Indias May 23-27, 2003 Darlene Hull Editor SALALM Secretariat Benson Latin American Collection The General Libraries The University of Texas at Austin ISBN: 0-917617-75-4 Copyright © 2006 by SALALM, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America HAROLD B. LFB LIBRARY IGHAMYOU iVERSITY PROVO TJTAH .. 1 Contents Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Art and Architecture 1 Art as Testimony: Writing History, Preserving Memory Cecilia Puerto 3 2. Madonna of the Andes: Life and Work of Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivia's Michelangelo Nelly S. González 12 3. Frida Kahlo and Her Struggle against Tradition Marian Goslinga 21 4. Amelia Peláez: fusion de vida y arte Lesbia Orta Varona 27 5. Espacios y símbolos en la evangelización del México colonial: el siglo XVI Víctor J. Cid Carmona 34 Music and Dance 6. Los estudios sobre música popular en el Caribe colombiano Adolfo González Henríquez 45 7. Lucho Bermúdez Albor y modernidad de la música del Caribe colombiano Enrique Luis Muñoz Vélez 62 8. Del barracón a la sala de conciertos: tres virtuosos afrocubanos del siglo XIX Rafael E. Tarrago 74 9. Danzas folklóricas de El Salvador Eduardo Ernesto Martínez Paredes 9 Culture in Audio and Visual Media 10. Ser archivista en el Caribe colombiano Sara Harb 1 07 1 1 Pájaros a punto de volar: el Archivo de la Palabra en la División Hispánica de la Biblioteca del Congreso Georgette M. Dorn 111 12. La emisora H.J.C.K.—El Mundo Alvaro Castaño Castillo 117 1 vi Contents 13. Propiciando la oralidad del pueblo mapuche Fresia CatrilafBalboa 1 2 14. La familia unida en la sociedad argentina: la tensión entre el mito y la realidad José Fuster Retali 1 27 Collections, Bibliography, and Literature 15. Colecciones especiales para el estudio del teatro puertorriqueño Victor Federico Torres 1 5 16. The Benson Latin American Collection's Recent Microfilming Projects to Preserve Mexican Newspapers A dan Benavides 1 5 8 17. Bibliografía nacional como sistema de repertorios bibliográficos para el estudio de la cultura cubana Araceli García Carranza 168 18. Lecturas de la tradición literaria en el fin de siglo cubano Ariel González 174 Trinidad and Tobago 19. Creating a Home for Culture in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Allison C. B. Do Iland 181 20. Cultural Evolution and Cross-Fertilization in Trinidad and Tobago Yacoob Hosein 1 95 21. Libraries as Cultural Spaces: The University of the West Indies Library System Kathleen Helenese-Paul Nel Bretney Enid Brown 2 1 Journals and Journal Indexing 22. La experiencia de El Malpensante: una revista cultural para el amplio público Andres Hoyos 225 23. Revistas mexicanas sobre artes plásticas y arquitectura como productos de cultura Elsa Barberena Carmen Block 230 24. Embracing "Otherness": Trends in Latin American Cultural Studies as Seen through the Hispanic American Periodicals Index Barbara G. Valk 244 Contents vii 25. Ampliando la red: nuevas iniciativas para indizar y divulgar revistas académicas latinoamericanas Luis A. González 255 Contributors 263 Conference Program 265 Preface Cartagena de Indias was a spectacular conference location for the forty- eighth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials and facilitated the choice for the conference theme. Because the conference took place in Latin America, and more particularly on the Caribbean coast, I chose a theme that would highlight the land and its people. "Celebrating Culture" placed emphasis on the elements and activities that influence the construction and production of culture, which are readily identified with a particular people or society: the cultural traditions, symbols, spaces, and leisure activities that enrich the quality of life and the physical, social, and moral environments in which the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean live. Paper themes gave a taste not only of Latin American and Caribbean cultural richness, but also of its life-enhancing qualities. Contact with these cultures and their cultural production, tangible or intangible, has enriched our lives—whether it be the music; the dance; the art; the architecture; the performing arts; the stories and language; the festivals and spaces; the beliefs, values, and practices; or the forms of knowledge and skill that give cultures their vitality. Panelists presented on a variety of topics that addressed many of these ele- ments of culture and tradition. Several papers published in this volume focus on individual artists, on art as testimony, and on religious architectural struc- tures. A second group highlights music, dance forms, and traditions including two papers on Colombian music from the Caribbean coastal region. The sec- tion on culture in audio and visual media includes papers with themes such as preserving the spoken word at the Library of Congress, promoting oral tradi- tion in the Mapuche communities of southern Chile, and representing the fam- ily in Argentine radio and television programs. Three papers from colleagues in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as a number of others in the volume, highlight cultural collections in libraries, preserving national cultural heritage and creat- ing spaces for cultural expression in society. The final group focuses on jour- nals and journal indexing practices. Only a selection of papers submitted for publication could be included in this volume due to space limitations of the published proceedings. I have cho- sen to publish the papers I believe to best represent the conference theme. Preface The conference program was a great success and much of that "éxito" must be credited to the individuals who assembled panels, who offered to present papers, and who arranged for and volunteered to serve as session rapporteurs. Thanks to all of you. Darlene Hull Acknowledgements I would like to extend special thanks to Hortensia Calvo, chair of Local Arrangements, for so enthusiastically organizing and coordinating this essen- tial aspect of the SALALM conference in Cartagena. Additionally, I would like to express special gratitude to a group of colleagues in Cartagena with whom I had direct contact and who worked on the many details that made the conference a success: Haroldo Calvo Stevenson, rector of the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Seccional del Caribe; Angela María Upegui, dean of la Facultad de Artes Gráficas; Alberto Samudio, dean of la Facultad de Arqui- tectura; and Margarita de Arango, our special assistant in Cartagena. The Cartagena conference was truly a collaborative effort and I grate- fully acknowledge the sponsorship of Banco de la República de Colombia; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango; Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Seccional del Caribe; Duke University Libraries; and the Latin American Library at Tulane University. In addition to the individuals acknowledged above, I want to thank the following individuals who also generously contributed to this conference. In Santafé de Bogotá, thanks to Jorge Orlando Melo, director de Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango; and Mario Fernando Albán, director de Relaciones Públicas, Banco de la República. In Cartagena de Indias, I would like to thank María Beatriz Dereix de García; Adolfo Meisel Roca, director de Museo del Oro, Banco de la República, Cartagena de Indias; and Yolanda Pupo de Mogollón, director del Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena. In Durham, North Carolina, thanks to Helen Dunn, Duke University Libraries; and in New Orleans, María José Gulden, Latin American Library, Tulane University. Thanks also to Diana Rodriguez of Hoteles Charleston, Santafé de Bogotá, for logistical support for the conference and events at the Hotel Charleston Santa Teresa. A special thanks to Mark L. Grover and Shannon Thurlow who worked on editing these papers. I would like to express gratitude to María Consuelo Aráujo, Ministra de Cultura de Colombia, for finding time in her busy schedule to meet with us in Cartagena to discuss library programs in Colombia and possibilities for col- laborative projects with SALALM members and their institutions. I would also like to thank the SALALM libreros for their continued sup- port and involvement in the organization. XI Art and Architecture 1. Art as Testimony: Writing History, Preserving Memory Cecilia Puerto "Art is a mask which unveils reality: It is a conduit through which we can feel—if we're willing to take the chance—as someone else has felt. It's a mask that we wear when we wish truly to understand what it is like to see as another sees." 1 "El arte utiliza la historia para volverla una creación subjetiva, en la cual el artista maneja dos relatos paralelos, el que le aporta la historia y el que el construye con su obra."2 Testimony as genre comprises a range of expressions and forms from the written word (autobiography, biography, reportage) to cinema and the visual arts, including photography, sculpture, and painting. A fundamental character- istic of testimonio (testimony) as considered in this paper is that it bears wit- ness to and records experience lived under extreme conditions—oppression, authoritarian rule, and violence—an act that is rooted in memory and history. Although my interest lies in exploring how Latin American visual artists have confronted and expressed these realities, I begin by briefly referring to other styles of testimonial expression as a backdrop for that discussion.
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