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Análisis sobre la violencia en la frontera entre Colombia y Venezuela ha aumentado descomunalmente en los últimos años. Treinta mil homicidios en una década, un millón de galones de combustibles ilegal transportados cada año y la captura de decenas de narcotraficantes, paramilitares y guerrilleros son algunas de estas cifras.

Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965) was the central composer in Venezuela for much of the 20th century as well as the leading figure in Venezuelan music education and musicology. His efforts to improve musical institutions in his home country parallel those of other contemporary Latin American composers, including Guarnieri in Brazil.Labonville's ambitious work is the first to use Plaza's extensive collection of writings and compositions in an English-language study. This book exhaustively examines Plaza's music criticism, his relations with the Venezuelan press, and his activities as a choral director and how he filled numerous roles in Venezuela's musical infrastructure as researcher, performer, teacher, composer, promoter, and critic.