Tropical riffs : Latin America and the politics of jazz / Jason Borge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borge, Jason, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Social aspects--Latin America.

Jazz.

Jazz--Latin America--History and criticism.

Jazz--Latin America--History--20th century.

Jazz--Social aspects.

Latin America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics, and intellectuals-who often understood jazz to stem from social conditions similar to their own-the profound penetration into the fabric of everyday life of musicians like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker represented the promises of modernity while simultaneously posing a threat to local and national identities. Brazilian antijazz rhetoric branded jazz as a problematic challenge to samba and as emblematic of Americanization. In Argentina, jazz catalyzed discussions about musical authenticity, race, and national culture, especially in relation to tango, And in Cuba, the widespread popularity of Chano Pozo and Dámaso Pérez Prado challenged the United States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas, bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "America's art form" was, and remains, a transnational project and a collective idea. Book jacket.

Contents:

Kindred sounds and Latin cats

La civilizada selva: Latin America and the Jazz Age

Dark pursuits: Argentina, race, and jazz

The anxiety of Americanization: jazz, samba, and bossa nova

The hazards of hybridity: Afro-Cuban jazz, mambo, and revolution

Liberation, disenchantment, and the afterlives of jazz

The cruelty of jazz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Borge, Jason, 1965- Tropical riffs.

ISBN:

9780822369875

0822369877

9780822369905

0822369907

OCLC:

980579483