Author: Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819569941
Size: 56.20 MB
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Listening To Salsa

by Frances R. Aparicio, Listening To Salsa Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Listening To Salsa books, Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view "that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class."

Author: Daniel Cavicchi
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571636
Size: 36.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Listening And Longing

by Daniel Cavicchi, Listening And Longing Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Listening And Longing books, Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s Peter C. Rollins Book Award (2012) Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2012) Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment—before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph—Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.

Author: JORGE MOREL
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 161065093X
Size: 44.34 MB
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Homage To Latin Music Salsa

by JORGE MOREL, Homage To Latin Music Salsa Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Homage To Latin Music Salsa books, Argentine master Jorge Morel combines his years of experience of life in Cuba and Puerto Rico and acquaintances with great Latin musicians with his talent for guitar performance in composing this delightful extended dance for solo classic guitar. Written in separate standard notation and tablature editions within the same folio (13 pages each), Morel's Homage makes extensive use of the syncopated clave rhythm pattern and the anticipated attack of bass notes so typical of salsa music. the standard notation edition is carefully fingered for the left hand to facilitate performance, with only minimal suggestions for the right hand. Audio available online.

Author: D. Poey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137382821
Size: 56.90 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Cuban Women And Salsa

by D. Poey, Cuban Women And Salsa Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Cuban Women And Salsa books, Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female singers negotiate issues of gender, race, and nation through their performances, Poey engages with the ways they problematize the idea of the nation and facilitate their musical performances' movement across multiple borders.

Author: Lise Waxer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135725349
Size: 80.17 MB
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Situating Salsa

by Lise Waxer, Situating Salsa Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Situating Salsa books, Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.

Author: Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252084539
Size: 71.92 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Negotiating Latinidad

by Frances R. Aparicio, Negotiating Latinidad Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Negotiating Latinidad books, Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities—MexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and others—an important part of Chicago's Latina/o scene. Intermarriage between Guatemalans, Colombians, and Cubans have further diversified this community-within-a-community. Yet we seldom consider the lives and works of these Intralatino/as when we discuss Latino/as in the United States.In Negotiating Latinidad, a cross-section of Chicago's second-generation Intralatino/as offer their experiences of negotiating between and among the national communities embedded in their families. Frances R. Aparicio's rich interviews reveal Intralatino/as proud of their multiplicity and particularly skilled at understanding difference and boundaries. Their narratives explore both the ongoing complexities of family life and the challenges of fitting into our larger society, in particular the struggle to claim a space—and a sense of belonging—in a Latina/o America that remains highly segmented in scholarship. The result is an emotionally powerful, theoretically rigorous exploration of culture, hybridity, and transnationalism that points the way forward for future scholarship on Intralatino/a identity.

Author: Michelle Habell-Pallan
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814736241
Size: 17.43 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Latino A Popular Culture

by Michelle Habell-Pallan, Latino A Popular Culture Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Latino A Popular Culture books, While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves are often contradictory. Latino/a Popular Culture brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres.

Author: Agustín Laó-Montes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231505442
Size: 28.20 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Mambo Montage

by Agustín Laó-Montes, Mambo Montage Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Mambo Montage books, New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the topic in all its multifaceted aspects, from Jim Crow baseball in the first half of the twentieth century to hip hop and ethno-racial politics, from Latinas and labor unions to advertising and Latino culture, from Cuban cuisine to the language of signs in New York City. Together the articles map out the main conceptions of Latino identity as well as the historical process of Latinization of New York. Mambo Montage is both a way of imagining latinidad and an angle of vision on the city.

Author: Michelle G. Knight
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807771570
Size: 15.44 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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College Ready

by Michelle G. Knight, College Ready Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download College Ready books, This book will support teachers, counselors, and administrators in creating a culturally relevant, school-wide, college-going culture to improve educational experiences and outcomes for Black and Latina/o youth. The authors present the perspectives and experiences of 25 students, focusing on the complexities of their daily lives and illuminating some of the significant influences that have supported or hindered their college readiness and access. They situate issues of college access in a national context, provide insight into who and what influences youths college-going processes, and engage readers in critical analysis to create culturally relevant policies and practices within their own school contexts.

Author: Christopher Small
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819572240
Size: 77.82 MB
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Musicking

by Christopher Small, Musicking Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Musicking books, Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower. Using Gregory Bateson's philosophy of mind and a Geertzian thick description of a typical concert in a typical symphony hall, Small demonstrates how musicking forms a ritual through which all the participants explore and celebrate the relationships that constitute their social identity. This engaging and deftly written trip through the concert hall will have readers rethinking every aspect of their musical worlds.