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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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354581
- 0822354586
- 9780822378877
- 0822378876
- OCLC:
- 1145329356
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