Disputes concerning the origin of the term bambuco persist among scholars in Colombia, as well as controversies regarding the process of notating the traditional bambuco (3/4 or 6/8), when it penetrates the written tradition of popular music. Composers writing popular and salon bambucos increasingly perceived the advantage of notating it in 6/8. This study investigates the traditional bambuco and its assimilation into nineteenth and twentieth-century cultivated tradition, with emphasis on piano pieces by representative Colombian composers of art music. I include specific analyses of Cuatro preguntas (ca. 1890) by Pedro Morales Pino (1863-1926), ChirimÍa y bambuco (1930) by Antonio MarÍa Valencia (1902-1952), Bambuco en si menor by Adolf o MejÍa (1905-1970), El bambuco by Manuel MarÍa Párraga (c. 1826-1895), and Trozos Nos. 6 and 158 (1927-1970) by Guillermo Uribe HolguÍn (1880-1971).

Book about traditional clothing in Colombia's Cauca state, including information about the region as well as descriptions of clothing and accessories for the various peoples who live there. Index of illustrations is on page 57.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about an airplane crash in Colombia, resulting in several deaths and injuries.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about an airplane crash that resulted in the death of 160 people, in Buga, Colombia.