Vazquez Alexandra T. Vazquez

Listening in Detail (eBook, PDF)

Performances of Cuban Music

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Produktbeschreibung

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "e;Cuban music"e; for ethnographic examination or market consumption. Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. "e;Listening in detail"e; is a method invested in opening up, rather than pinning down, experiences of Cuban music. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender emerge in fragments and moments, and in gestures and sounds through Vazquez's engagement with Alfredo Rodriguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year career of the vocalist Graciela Perez, the signature grunt of the "e;Mambo King"e; Damaso Perez Prado, Cuban music documentaries of the 1960s, and late-twentieth-century concert ephemera.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822378877
• Artikelnr.: 54787775

Autorenporträt

Alexandra T. Vazquez

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Performing Anthology: The Mystical Qualities of Alfredo Rodríguez's
Cuba Linda 43
2. "Una Escuela Rara": The Graciela School 93
3. Itinerant Outbursts: The Grunt of Dámaso Pérez Prado 131
4. Visual Arrangements, Sonic Impressions: The Cuban Musical Documentaries
of Rogelio París and Sara Gómez 165
5. Cold War Kids In Concert 203
Notes 235
Bibliography 301
Index 319