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Musics of Latin America
Edited by Robin Moore (General Editor, University of Texas, Austin) and Walter Aaron Clark (Editor, University of California, Riverside)
Published by W.W. Norton & Company
The most up-to-date and comprehensive Latin American music survey available. Covering one of the most musically diverse regions in the world, Musics of Latin America emphasizes music as a means of understanding culture and society: each author balances an analysis of musical genres with discussion of the historical and cultural trends that have shaped them. Chapters cover traditional, popular, and classical repertoire, and in-text listening guides ensure that students walk away with a solid understanding of the music.
Robin Moore is professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his B.A. (Music Composition) and M.A. (Ethnomusicology) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin, with specializations in Latin America, popular music studies, and the history of ethnomusicology. His principal research interests include music and nationalism, music and race relations, popular music, and socialist art aesthetics. He is the recipient of grants from the MacArthur, Mellon, and Rockefeller foundations. He remains active as a performer of traditional Latin American music and is currently editor of the Latin American Music Review.
Walter Aaron Clark is a professor of musicology and chair of the music department at the University of California, Riverside. He received his doctorate in musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles and holds performance degrees in classical guitar from the North Carolina School of the Arts (B.M.) and the University of California, San Diego (M.A.). He teaches a wide variety of courses, including opera history, Latin American art music, folk and popular music of Latin America, twentieth-century music, and world music.
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Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
Edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol
Indiana University Press, 2006
Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life.
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 Reference Library of Black America
Gale Group, 2003
This authoritative, 5-volume set provides a range of historical and current information on African-American history, society and culture. Students also will find chronologies, texts of important documents and speeches, brief biographical profiles, legislation, essays, statistics and more than 800 illustrations to help with research. A glossary, a selected bibliography and cumulative subject index make this resource easy to use.
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Cuban Music from A to Z
By Helio Orovio
Duke University Press, 2004
With more than 1,300 alphabetical entries, this volume is a comprehensive English-language reference for anyone with an interest in Cuban music. Entries provide brief biographies of musicians and individuals who have shaped and influenced Cuban music over the course of its history. Put together by Orovio, a musicologist and historian at the Institute of Folklore and Ethnology in Cuba, this volume is truly a "tribute to Cuban music and its musicians."
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 Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume II
Pamela Youngdahl Dees, Editor
Praeger Publishing
Acts as a companion to Volume I: Composers Born Before 1900 to create a comprehensive reference of women composers and their work. Volume II includes composers from countries around the world and of all different musical styles and levels, ranging from elementary to virtuoso. The only reference tool of its kind, this is an indispensable guide for professional pianists and piano teachers alike.
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Women of Influence in Contemporary Music
Edited by Michael K. Slayton
Published by The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
A collection of essays focusing on women who have made significant contributions to American music. Their works reflect the shifting societal landscapes in the United States over the last seven decades, as well as different stylistic approaches to writing music. Michael K. Slayton is associate professor and chair of the Department of Music Composition and Theory at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
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 Latin American Music Review, Vol. 31: No. 1, Spring/Summer 2010
University of Texas Press
State University of New York Press, 2008.
Includes the article, Contemporary "Latin American" Composers of Art Music in the United States: Cosmopolitans Navigating Multiculturalism and Universalism by Marc Gidal, which discusses the compositional voice and ideas of Tania León.
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 New Publication features Alma for flute and piano!!
One of 11 winners selected by the National Flute Association for its newly published music competition.
Eight Visions: A New Anthology for Flute and Piano
Commissioned for and curated by Marya Martin
Published by Theodore Presser Co.
Theodore Presser Company is honored to publish a collection of commissioned flute solos by eight different composers, a result of a collaboration between flutist Marya Martin and Meet the Composer.
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 Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced
by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera (Editor)
State University of New York Press, 2008.
Includes In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leon Interview by Iraida Iturralde
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 Joan Peyser's revised edition of To Boulez and Beyond recounts a meeting between Boulez and León during a celebration of Boulez's 80th Birthday by the Chicago Symphony, in which both Boulez's and León's work were performed.
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 The World of Women in Classical Music
by Dr. Anne K. Gray
Word World Publishing. 2007
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 How Music Grew in Brooklyn: A Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra
by Maurice Edwards
Published by The Scarecrow Press. 2006.
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 A History of Music in Western Culture, Second Edition
Supplement: CD Set, Volume II - The Classical Era through the Twentieth Century - a 2/E (Audio CD) includes León's Rituál score and recording.
by Mark Evan Bonds
Published by Prentice Hall, 2006
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 Dvorák to Duke Ellington, A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots
by Maurice Peress
Published by Oxford University Press. 2004
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 Feminismo y Música: Introduccion Critica
by Pilar Ramos Lopez
Published by NARCEA, S.A. de Ediciones (Madrid, Spain), 2003
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 Interview with Tania León in Composers' Voices From Ives to Ellington, an oral history of American music edited by Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve, published by Yale University Press. The book, and the two CDs that accompany it, is an exceptional collection of interviews with the most significant musical figures of our time. Tania León's interview was conducted by Jenny Raymond on November 13, 1998.
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 Trayectoria de la Mujer Cubana
by Concepcion Teresa Alzola
Ediciones Universal, 2009
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 Music Cultures in the United States: An introduction
by Ellen Koskoff
Published 2005 by Ron Hedge
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 Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women
by Dr. James R. Briscoe
Published 1997, by Indiana University Press
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 La Sabiduría de los Nuestros — Mas de 1,000 citas que le inspiraran
ed. by Yvonne Conde
Vintage Espanol (Random House), 2006
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 Music in America
by Adelaida Reyes
Oxford University Press, 2005
Discusses Batéy, CD included.
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 Women and Music in America since 1900
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003
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|  The Popular Guide to Classical Music
by Anne Gray, PhD
Birch Lane Press: NY, 1993
(chapters on women composers and women conductors)
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Other Publications
PIÑERO GIL, Carmen Cecilia
"Compositoras latinoamericanas contemporáneas: exilios, identidades y creación"
Included in Teoria, Critica e Music na Atualidade, published by the University Federal de Rio de Janeiro's School of Music.
CHOONG CHEONG, Yew
"An introduction to the solo piano works of three Latin American composers: Miguel del Águila, Tania León, and Juan María Solare"
Doctoral Thesis, West Virginia University, 2009.
PIÑERO GIL, Carmen Cecilia
"Cuatro compositoras iberoamericanas del siglo XX"
Madrid: Tesis doctoral inédita, Doctorado en Historia y Ciencias de la Música, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1998. La tesis se centraba en el quehacer musical de la mexicana Alicia Urreta (1930-1986), la argentina Alicia Terzián (1934), la cubana Tania León (1943) y la venezolana Adina Izarra (1959).
PIÑERO GIL, Carmen Cecilia y PIÑERO GIL, Eulalia Cecilia
"Scourge of Hyacinths de Tania León y Wole Soyinka. La universalidad del discurso postcolonial"
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Tenerife, n. 35, p. 185-193 Universidad de La Laguna, nov. 1997; PIÑERO GIL, Carmen Cecilia."El eco popular en la escritura culta de Tania León". En BALLESTEROS, Antonio (edit.). Popular Texts in English. New perspectives. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 2001. p. 255-261; PIÑERO GIL, Carmen Cecilia: "La riqueza multicultural en la composición de Tania León". En Tania León en Madrid (Dossier Especial - Colección MOUSIKÉ LOGOS), Rev. La Retreta, Costa Rica, año I, n. 1, p. 4-10, febrero-abril, 2008. . Disponible en http.//www.acimus.org/compositoras/tania_leon.pdf. Acceso el 15 de abril de 2008.
The Beat of Latin Women
by Sylvia Mendoza
Published 2004 by Adams Media
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
ed. by H. Wiley Hitchcock and S. Sadie
London: Macmillan Press,1986 and 1996/7
Charles Shere, biographer
"An Introduction to the Music of Tania León and a Conductor's Analysis of Indigena"
Monograph by James M. Spinazzola
Louisiana State University, 2006
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04042006-154742/unrestricted/Spinazzola_dis.pdf
Musica latinoamericana para violonchelo
German Marcao
Catalogo de obras
Fundacion Emilio Sojo, 2004
Encyclopedia of Cuba, Vol. 2
Greenwood Press, 2003
Europaischer Dirigentinnen Reader
Schriftenreihe Frau und Musik Internationaler Arbeitskreis e.V., Band 4
2003
"The Colors of Culture: Characteristics in Selected Works of Tania Justina León"
Dissertation by Donna Jean Reiner
Graduate School of the Union Institute, 1999.
"The Symphony of the New World"
compiled by Clarissa and Marion Gumbo
in The black Perspective in Music, Vol. 3 No. 3
Autumn, 1975
Publications including music by Tania Leon:
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 Tumbao in Boosey & Hawkes' Salsa Nueva: vibrant salsa beats meet contemporary classical piano music
ed. by Elena Riu
CD included
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 BandQuest: "Alegre"
by Tania León
CD-ROM and score/parts
American Composers Forum. 2003
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 Two Cuban Songs: Drume Negrita, El Manisero
arr. by Tania León
PeerMusic, 2002
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