Format:
Online-Ressource (239 p.)
ISBN:
9781439900895
Content:
Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called "Latin" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente’s tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. Like Puente and Santana, Latino/a musicians have always blended musics from their homelands with other sounds in our multicultural society, challenging ideas of what "Latin" music is or ought to be. Waves of im
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Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Hybridity, Identity, and Latino Popular Music; 2 Historical Perspectives on Latinos and the Latin Music Industry; 3 To Rock or Not to Rock: Cultural Nationalism and Latino Engagement with Rock 'n' Roll; 4 Turning the Tables: Musical Mixings, Border Crossings, and New Sonic Circuitries; 5 New Immigrants, New Layerings: Tradition and Transnationalism in U.S. Dominican Popular Music; 6 From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Roots, Routes, Race, and Mestizaje; 7 Marketing Latinidad in a Global Era; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781439900918
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Oye Como Va! : Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music
Language:
English
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