The advent of digital resources, the Internet, and an interconnected globe has deeply affected the humanities and its research. Music scholars in Latin America, like everywhere else, have observed this explosion of digital information sharing, but not everyone has been able to take advantage of the new opportunities afforded by this technology. On the one hand, advantages of digitization are slowly becoming recognized as tools to fight the enormous size of the region (Latin America), especially through technology's ability to easily and promptly disperse sources across great distances. In addition, digitization acts as an aid in countering the endemic lack of economic resources, and more broadly offers a path towards making the academic world a more connected and equal place. On the other hand, it is undeniable that the digital revolution has not reached people across the globe equally. Digital segregation is a problem that deeply impacts numerous nations around world; and for Latin America and the Caribbean, it has meant a slower pace of incorporation into the digital era. Key databases like JSTOR and the various READEX products are still largely unavailable to scholars in Latin America, and, given the steep price of such resources, the fight for a world of open-source information is becoming increasingly political.

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数字人文与十九世纪音乐：来自拉丁美洲的一些观点和例子

数字资源、互联网和互联地球的出现深深地影响了人文学科及其研究。拉丁美洲的音乐学者和其他地方一样，已经观察到数字信息共享的爆炸式增长，但并不是每个人都能够利用这项技术提供的新机遇。一方面，数字化的优势正逐渐被认为是对抗该地区（拉丁美洲）巨大规模的工具，特别是通过技术能够轻松、迅速地将资源分散到远距离的能力。此外，数字化有助于解决普遍缺乏经济资源的问题，并更广泛地为使学术界变得更加联系和平等的地方提供了途径。另一方面，不可否认，数字革命并没有平等地影响到全球人民。数字隔离是一个深刻影响世界各地许多国家的问题；对于拉丁美洲和加勒比地区而言，这意味着融入数字时代的步伐放缓。像 JSTOR 和各种 READEX 产品这样的关键数据库在拉丁美洲的学者中仍然基本上无法获得，而且，鉴于这些资源的高昂价格，争取开源信息世界的斗争变得越来越政治化。