Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz - Tapa dura

Borge, Jason

 
9780822369875: Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz
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ISBN 10: 0822369877 ISBN 13: 9780822369875
Editorial: Duke University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics, and intellectuals-who often understood jazz to stem from social conditions similar to their own-the profound penetration into the fabric of everyday life of musicians like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker represented the promises of modernity while simultaneously posing a threat to local and national identities. Brazilian antijazz rhetoric branded jazz as a problematic challenge to samba and emblematic of Americanization. In Argentina jazz catalyzed discussions about musical authenticity, race, and national culture, especially in relation to tango. And in Cuba, the widespread popularity of Chano Pozo and DÁmaso PÉrez Prado popularity challenged the United States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas, bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "America's art form" was, and remains, a transnational project and a collective idea.

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Acerca del autor

Jason Borge is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema.

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Editorial
Duke University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0822369877
ISBN 13 
9780822369875
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
280
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9780822369905: Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

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ISBN 10:  0822369907 ISBN 13:  9780822369905
Editorial: Duke University Press, 2018
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