Song and Social Change in Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the Nueva Canción in Central America, Rock in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru, the Vallenato in Colombia, Trova in Cuba, and urban music of Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century. The collection also includes five interviews from prominent and up-and-coming musicians —Ruben Blades, Roy Brown, Habana Abierta, Ana Tijoux, and Mare— representing a variety of musical genres and political issues in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Mexico.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-02-26
Mått154 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498511759

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik
Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Populärmusik inom Kultur

IntroductionLauren ShawPart I: Music and Agency Chapter 1: Singing the City, Documenting Modernization: Cortijo y su combo and the Insertion of the Urban in 1950s Puerto Rican CultureCarmelo EsterrichChapter 2: Shattering Myths: Brazil: Brazil’s Tropicália MovementJohn R. Baldwin and Phillip J. ChidesterChapter 3: The Mockingbird Still Calls for Arlen: Central American Songs of Rebellion, 1970-2010Juan Carlos UreñaChapter 4: Social Denunciation of the Politics of Fear: Rock Music through the Eighties in Argentina, Chile and PeruLisette BalabarcaChapter 5: The Politics of Language, Class, and Nation in Mexico’s Rock en español MovementIgnacio CoronaChapter 6: Witnessing Forced Internal Displacement in Colombia Through Vallenato MusicDiana Rodríguez QuevedoChapter 7: Rich Poetry: Cuban Voices of PossibilityLauren ShawPart II: Conversations on Music and Social ChangeRuben Blades, New York CityHabana Abierta, MadridRoy Brown, Mayagüez, Ana Tijoux, BostonMare Advertencia Lirika, Oaxaca via Skype

[This book]is a must-read for all those interested in building an emancipatory politics of the twenty first century. It opens a poetics of possibility which shines new light on the importance of taking seriously the cultural, the popular and the everyday in social change and political transformation. The collection takes us on a journey that crosses geographical, cultural, political and epistemological borders. . . .[The book's] playful use of form, combining traditional scholarly analysis of song with six interviews with musicians . . . contributes to its ability to stimulate the critical imagination and to open emancipatory horizons. The thirteen unique contributions highlight some of the generic ways in which song-poetry facilitates social change. . . .This volume is to be actively and tenderly explored. Through an embodied act of reading we can become active interlocutors with the text, listening to the traditions discussed. Through savouring the text in this way, we enter a dialogue of knowledges that engages our head, heart, body and imagination. Song and Social Change in Latin America transgresses borders. For this reason it is a gem.