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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809569803321

Autore

Pacini Hernandez Deborah

Titolo

Oye como va! [[electronic resource] ] : hybridity and identity in Latino popular music / / Deborah Pacini Hernandez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-50591-2

9786612505911

1-4399-0091-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

781.64089/68073

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Social aspects

Popular music - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Hybridity, Identity, and Latino Popular Music; 2 Historical Perspectives on Latinos and the Latin Music Industry; 3 To Rock or Not to Rock: Cultural Nationalism and Latino Engagement with Rock 'n' Roll; 4 Turning the Tables: Musical Mixings, Border Crossings, and New Sonic Circuitries; 5 New Immigrants, New Layerings: Tradition and Transnationalism in U.S. Dominican Popular Music; 6 From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Roots, Routes, Race, and Mestizaje; 7 Marketing Latinidad in a Global Era; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed ""Oye Como Va!"" in the 1960's, his popular song was called ""Latin"" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente's tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. Like Puente and Santana, Latino/a musicians have always blended musics from their homelands with other sounds in our multicultural society, challenging ideas of what ""Latin"" music is or ought to be. Waves of immigrants...