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The Florida room / Alexandra T. Vazquez.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML200.8.M49 V397 2022
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vazquez, Alexandra T., 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Florida--Miami--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects--Florida--Miami.
- Music and history--Florida--Miami.
- Music and history.
- Miami (Fla.)--Intellectual life.
- Miami (Fla.).
- Miami (Fla.)--History.
- Intellectual life.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Florida--Miami.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In The Florida Room Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to offer a lush story of place and people, movement and memory, dispossession and survival. She transforms the "Florida room"-an actual architectural phenomenon-into a vibrant spatial imaginary for Miami's musical cultures and everyday life. Drawing on songs, ephemera, and oral histories from artists, families, and inheritors of their traditions, Vazquez hears Miami as a city that has long been shaped by Indigenous Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and southern Georgia. She draws connections between seemingly disparate artists, sounds, and stories, from singer Gwen McCrae to pirate radio innovator DJ Uncle Al, from the Miccosukee rock band Tiger Tiger to the Cuban-American songwriter Desmond Child, among the percussionists Dafnis Prieto, Obed Calvaire, and Yosvany Terry, and through the notes of Eloise Lewis, Betty Wright, and the Miami Bass group Anquette. By listening to musical collaborations and ancestral ties across place and time, Vazquez brings together formal musical details, the histories of people and locations they hold, and the aesthetic traditions transformed inside them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Head for the Beach
- The Florida Room
- Miami from the Spoils
- Drums Take Time
- Bass Is the Place.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vazquez, Alexandra T., 1976- Florida room
- ISBN:
- 9781478015307
- 1478015306
- 9781478017929
- 1478017929
- OCLC:
- 1245344538
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