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Whose national music? : identity, mestizaje, and migration in Ecuador / Ketty Wong.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3575.E2 W66 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wong, Ketty.
- Series:
- Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National music--Ecuador--History and criticism.
- National music.
- Music--Social aspects--Ecuador.
- Music.
- Nationalism in music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Ecuador.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Musical genres, musical instruments, and even songs can often capture the essence of a country's national charter. In Whose National Music?, the first book-length study of Ecuadorian popular music, Ketty Wong explores Ecuadorians' views or their national identity in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through an examination of the music labels they use. Wong deftly addresses the notion of música national, an umbrella term for Ecuadorian popular songs often defined by the socio-economic, ethnic, racial, and generational background of people discussing the music.
- Wong shows how the inclusion or exclusion of elite and working-class musics within the scope of música nacional articulate different social, ethnic, and racial configurations of the nation for white, mestizo, indigenous, and Afro-Ecuadorian populations.
- Presenting a macropicture of what música national is-or should be-Whose National Music? provides a lively historical trajectory of a country's diverse musical scene.
- In the series, Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music, edited by Peter Manuel Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The nation in bloom : a search for "Ecuadorianness"
- La música 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 música 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439900574
- 1439900574
- 9781439900598
- 1439900590
- OCLC:
- 740630593
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