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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821561303321

Titolo

Sound, image, and national imaginary in the construction of Latin/o American identities / / edited by Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste and Pablo Vila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-6524-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America

Disciplina

305.80098

Soggetti

Group identity - Latin America

National characteristics, Latin American

Music - Latin America - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The national symbols of Costa Rica : a decolonial approach / María Isabel Carvajal Araya -- Another look at the history of tango : the intimate connection of rural and urban music in Argentina at the beginning of the twentieth century / Julia Chindemi and Pablo Vila -- Nationalisms and anti-indigenismos : Rudolph Holzmann and his contribution to a "Peruvian" music / Raúl R. Romero -- Music and cartoons in Brazil : complementarity in the representation of national identity / Waldomiro Vergueiro and Geisa Fernandes, translated by Ricardo Nogueira -- Divergent imaginaries of the nation in the new Chilean pop of the 1980s / Juan Pablo González, translated by Peggy Westwell and Pablo Vila -- Cumbias of the crisis : a hauntology of modern Uruguay / Matthew J. Van Hoose -- On the rise of middle-class Vallenato : the recreation of the national in a commodified musical genre / Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste -- Dancing palimpsests : "Bailando" and the choreographing of Cuba's international image / Susan Thomas -- Marc Anthony 3.0 : toward a critical salsa romántica / Frances R. Aparicio.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book explores the key role of sound and image in the perception of nations throughout the history of the Americas. It subverts the strict



chronology previously upheld by historians regarding the formation of national identities by looking at the development of countries in varied cultural, economic, and political situations" --