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Song and social change in Latin America / edited by Lauren Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- Politics and music are intertwined in this study of different musical forms in Latin America from the twentieth century to the present as scholars from diverse disciplines analyze various musical genres contextualized by moments of political importance in Latin America. Interviews of prominent and up-and-coming musicians from Latin America discuss how the personal is actually political.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; I: Music and Agency; Chapter One: Singing the City, Documenting Modernization: Cortijo y su combo and the Insertion of the Urban in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture; Chapter Two: Shattering Myths: Brazil ́s Tropicália Movement; Chapter Three: The Mockingbird Still Calls for Arlen: Central American Songs of Rebellion, 1970-2010; Chapter Four: Social Denunciation of the Politics of Fear: Rock Music through the Eighties in Argentina, Chile, and Peru; Chapter Five: The Politics of Language, Class, and Nation in Mexico's Rock en español Movement
- Chapter Six: Witnessing Forced Internal Displacement in Colombia through Vallenato MusicChapter Seven: Rich Poetry: Cuban Voices of Possibility; II: Conversations on Music and Social Change; Chapter Eight: Interview with Rubén Blades; Chapter Nine: Interview with Roy Brown; Chapter Ten: Interview with Vanito Brown, Luis Barbería, and Alejandro Gutiérrez; Chapter Eleven: Interview with Ana Tijoux; Chapter Twelve: Interview with Mare; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-4381-5
- 1-299-38769-1
- 0-7391-7949-7
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