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¡Y que viva Venezuela! Maestros del joropo oriental. 2009. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40551. Annotated by Daniel E. Sheehy with Benito Irady. Produced by Patricia Abdelnour, Aqiles Báez, and Daniel E. Sheehy. 41 pp. of notes in English and Spanish. Spanish translation by Patricia Abdelnour. 8 colour, 7 b/w photographs, 1 map. 1 compact disc, 14 tracks (55:00).
For those familiar with Venezuela, joropo usually refers to the music of the cowboys of the llanos, the plains states in the interior of the country, but...