The musical history of Ibero-America – understood not only as a geographical space but also as a global cultural community – has been marked by highly complex transculturation processes, as a result of the convergence and subsequent hybridization – over time – of indigenous and African matrices. and Iberian. This reality was possible thanks to an extensive and diversified communications network – first maritime and land, then also air – that kept a plurality of regions and ecosystems interconnected. Starting from this interpretive approach to networks of exchange, this collection of essays contains recent research on how music, with its complexity of semantic and formal components and its inherent capacity to cross all types of borders, participated in these transnational networks, becoming a key agent within a dynamic system of cultural relations. Specifically, the various chapters, signed by researchers from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Portugal and Puerto Rico, analyze how the existence of communication routes shaped the mobility of musicians, repertoires, practices and ideologies , configuring a dynamic and complex reticular structure that allows us to understand the Ibero-American sound universe as part of an interacted whole

This book is included in DOAB.