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in 1961 and 1962 John p. Harrison, associate director for the Humanities Division at the rockefeller Foundation, successfully sponsored grants toward the creation of the latin American music Center (lAmC) at indiana university and the Centro latinoamericano de Altos estudios musicales (ClAem) at the Di Tella institute in buenos Aires. The first was meant to be a research and teaching center encompassing latin American countries and the second a graduate school for latin American composers in the Western art music tradition.1 only a handful of music projects in the united States received as much funding from the rockefeller Foundation as these two, and even fewer had as much success. This increased attention to latin American music happened at the same time that u.S. foreign policy in the region shifted from the handsoff approach of the 1950s to the support of social and economic development programs of the 1960s, as exemplified by the Alliance for progress. The Cuban revolution had brought latin America to the center stage of the Cold War, and, at least initially, u.S. developmental aid was seen as a way to promote economic growth and prevent the spread of Communism. most scholars explain the alignment between u.S. private philanthropy