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Gentleman troubadours and Andean pop stars : huayno music, media work, and ethnic imaginaries in urban Peru / Joshua Tucker.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Joshua.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Social aspects--Peru.
- Popular music.
- Huaynos--Peru--Ayacucho--History and criticism.
- Huaynos.
- Huaynos--Peru--Lima--History and criticism.
- Radio and music--Peru.
- Radio and music.
- Sound recording industry--Social aspects--Peru.
- Sound recording industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, Joshua Tucker tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Tucker focuses on the music of Ayacucho, Peru, examining how media workers and intellectuals there transformed the city's huayno music into the country's most popular style. By marketing contemporary huayno against its traditional counterpart, these agents, Tucker argues, have paradoxically reinforced ethnic hierarchies at the same time that they have challenged them. Navigating between a burgeoning Andean bourgeoisie and a music industry eager to sell them symbols of newfound sophistication, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a deep account of the real people behind cultural change.
- Contents:
- Introduction : cities, sounds, and circulation in twenty-first century Peru
- The distributed society
- The Andean music scene
- Bohemians, poets, and troubadours
- The commercial huayno business
- Finding the huayno people
- Epilogue : folkloric frames and mass culture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781299401013
- 1299401015
- 9780226923970
- 0226923975
- OCLC:
- 834136711
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