Whose National Music?

Ketty Wong is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Kansas. In 2010, she received the prestigious Casa de las AmÉricas Musicology Prize for La mÚsica nacional: Identidad, mestizaje y migraciÓn en el Ecuador, the Spanish language version of this book.

• List of Listening Examples;Introduction;The Nation in Bloom: A Search for "Ecuadorianness";La Musica Nacional: An Anthology of Songs;The Pasillo: Rise and Decline of the National Song;Rocolera Music: New Urban Sounds in the City;Chichera Music: The Tropicalization of Musica Nacional;The Tecnocumbia Boom in Ecuador: "A Letter With My Kisses Sent With Love by Internet";The Translocation of Ecuadorian Popular Music;Whose National Music?;Appendix 1;Appendix 2;Appendix 3;Bibliography;Glossary.

"Wong has produced a very important work-the first comprehensive book on Ecuadorian popular music with interviews, a thorough, readable study of the local record industry, and participant-observation fieldwork. She succeeds in linking the issues of national identity with popular music, explaining mÚsica nacional, the history of the pasillo, of the musica rocolera, of musica chicha and the tecnocumbia. Her arguments are solid and her theoretical approach is informed."-Raul R. Romero, Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Catholic University of Peru