Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre FREE DOWNLOAD
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books (May 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0822354330
- ISBN-13: 978-0822354338
Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then
spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and
settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the
Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility.
Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters.
Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes on different styles and
meanings from place to place, and even, as the contributors to this
collection show, from person to person. Cumbia is a different music
among the working classes of northern Mexico, Latin American immigrants
in New York City, Andean migrants to Lima, and upper-class Colombians,
who now see the music that they once disdained as a source of national
prestige. The contributors to this collection look at particular
manifestations of cumbia through their disciplinary lenses of
musicology, sociology, history, anthropology, linguistics, and literary
criticism. Taken together, their essays highlight how intersecting forms
of identity—such as nation, region, class, race, ethnicity, and
gender—are negotiated through interaction with the music.
Contributors.
Cristian Alarcón, Jorge Arévalo Mateus, Leonardo D'Amico, Héctor
Fernández L'Hoeste, Alejandro L. Madrid, Kathryn Metz, José Juan Olvera
Gudiño, Cathy Ragland, Pablo Semán, Joshua Tucker, Matthew J. Van Hoose,
Pablo Vila
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