Teaching Latin American Music

In this page I share resources on teaching Latin American Popular Music, mainly as a music appreciation course in higher education, based on a conference presentation delivered on June 5, 2026 at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami for the conference of the Association of Popular Music Educators. I’ll be adding more resources in the future, so please save/bookmark and come back!

Zotero Bibliography on Latin American Music this Zotero collection is the result of collaborative work with colleagues Mark Lomanno and Sergio Ospina Romero. The folders on Textbooks & Dictionaries and Encyclopedias would be a great starting point. We’ll be creating more sub-categories and collections to help navigate the library, and add more sources as new publications are released.

WebsitesProfessional Societies and Organizations

• Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology
• Ibero-American Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)-Latin America Branch
• ARLAC-IMS: Asociación Regional para América Latina y el Caribe of the International Musicological Soceity
• ICTMD: International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance: Study Group on Music and Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean (ICTMD LATCAR)
• Many Latin American countries have their own music studies societies
  • Sociedad Chilena de Musicología
  • Asociación Argentina de Musicología
• Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation

Archives and Special Collections

• Latin American Music Center, Indiana University
• Latin American Music Center, Catholic University
• Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
• Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin
• Digital Libraries of the Caribbean
• Díaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection, Florida International University
• Edouard Pecourt Collection [mostly tango], UC Santa Barbara
• Colección Gladys Palmera
• Museums: Smithsonian
  • American Sabor exhibit
  • ¡Puro Ritmo! exhibit for the National Museum of the American Latino