Danzón : circum-Caribbean dialogues in music and dance / Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madrid, Alejandro L., author.

Moore, Robin D., 1964- author.

Series:

Currents in Latin American & Iberian music

Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danzones (Music)--History and criticism.

Danzones (Music).

Physical Description:

xv, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin dance traditions as well as early jazz in New Orleans. Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance studies the emergence, hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this music and dance phenomenon. Co-authors Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore take an ethnomusicological, historical, and critical approach to the processes of appropriation of the danzón in new contexts, its changing meanings over time, and its relationship to other musical forms. Delving into its long history of controversial popularization, stylistic development, glorification, decay, and rebirth in a continuous transnational dialogue between Cuba and Mexico as well as New Orleans, the authors explore the production, consumption, and transformation of this Afro-diasporic performance complex in relation to global and local ideological discourses. By focusing on interactions across this entire region as well as specific local scenes, Madrid and Moore underscore the extent of cultural movement and exchange within the Americas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and are thereby able to analyze the danzón, the dance scenes it has generated, and the various discourses of identification surrounding it as elements in broader regional processes. Danzón is a significant addition to the literature on Latin American music, dance, and expressive culture; it is essential reading for scholars, students, and fans of this music alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

Danzón matters : mapping out the issues

Genre matters : danzón as a performance complex

Race, morality, and the circulation of danzón, 1870-1940

The danzón and musical dialogues with early jazz

Nostalgia, affect and performativity in contemporary danzón scenes

Cachondería, discipline, and danzón dancing

Danzón musings beyond the dance hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199965809

0199965803

9780199965823

019996582X

OCLC:

828626848