Listening in detail : performances of Cuban music / Alexandra T. Vazquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vazquez, Alexandra T., 1976-

Series:

Refiguring American music

Refiguring american music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Cuba--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Performance.

Cuba.

Music--Performance--Cuba.

Physical Description:

xviii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. Contending that the music is a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. "Listening in detail" opens up experiences of Cuban music. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender emerge in fragments and moments, and in gestures and sounds through Vazquez's engagement with Alfredo Rodríguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year career of the vocalist Graciela Pérez, the signature grunt of the "Mambo King" Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban music documentaries of the 1960s, and late-twentieth-century concert ephemera. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Performing anthology : the mystical qualities of Alfredo Rodriguez's Cuba linda

"Una escuela rara" : the Graciela School

Itinerant outbursts: the grunt of Dámaso Pérez Prado

Visual arrangements, sonic impressions: the Cuban musical documentaries of Rogelio París and Sara Gómez

Cold war kids in concert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.

ISBN:

9780822354550

0822354551

9780822354581

0822354586

OCLC:

826895169