The Sounds of Latinidad : Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City / Samuel K. Byrd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrd, Samuel K. (Samuel Kyle), Author.

Series:

Social Transformations in American Anthropology

Social Transformations in American Anthropology ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects--North Carolina--Charlotte.

Music.

Latin Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte--Music--History and criticism.

Latin Americans.

Hispanic Americans--North Carolina--Charlotte--Music--History and criticism.

Hispanic Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants’ access to the American dream and musicians’ dreams of success. Instead, Latin music has become a way to form community, debate political questions, and claim cultural citizenship. The volume illuminates the complexity of Latina/o musicians’ lives. They find themselves at the intersection of culture and politics, often pushed to define a vision of what it means to be Latino in a globalizing city in the Nuevo South. At the same time, they often avoid overt political statements and do not participate in immigrants’ rights struggles, instead holding a cautious view of political engagement. Yet despite this politics of ambivalence, Latina/o musicians do assert intellectual agency and engage in a politics that is embedded in their musical community, debating aesthetics, forging collective solidarity with their audiences, and protesting poor working conditions. Challenging scholarship on popular music that focuses on famous artists or on one particular genre, this volume demonstrates how exploring the everyday lives of ordinary musicians can lead to a deeper understanding of musicians’ role in society. It argues that the often overlooked population of Latina/o musicians should be central to our understanding of what it means to live in a southern U.S. city today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Charlotte, a Globalizing City

2. The Latin Music Scene in Charlotte

3. Bands Making Musical Communities

4. “Thursday Is Bakalao’s Day!”

5. The “Collective Circle”

6. Shifting Urban Genres

7. Race and the Expanding Borderlands Condition

8. The Festival

9. Musicians’ Ethics and Aesthetics

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781479876426

1479876429

OCLC:

911246466