Music in the Hispanic Caribbean : Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
ISBN: 9780195375053 | 019537505X
Edition: 1stFormat: Package
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/14/2009
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Music in the Hispanic Caribbean is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on asingle area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they ... MORE
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Defining the Caribbean | |
| Music and Race in the Caribbean | |
| Creolization and Diaspora | |
| Music and Spanish Colonization | |
| A Brief History of Colonization | |
| Spanish-Derived Music | |
| Puerto Rican Seis | |
| Cuban Punto | |
| Folk Catholicism and th... MORE | |
| Cultural Legacies of the Slave Trade | |
| History of the Slave Trade | |
| Afro-Cuban Toques de Guiros | |
| Afro-Dominican Salves | |
| Puerto Rican Bomba | |
| Creolized Dance Music | |
| Dominican Merengue | |
| Cuban Son | |
| Puerto Rican Plena | |
| New York Salsa | |
| Transnational Caribbean Musics | |
| The Colonial Contradanza | |
| Bolero and Bachata | |
| Reggaeton | |
| Political Song | |
| The Rise of Nueva Cancion | |
| Struggles for Independence in the Hispanic Caribbean | |
| Puerto Rican Nueva Cancion | |
| Dominican Nueva Cancion | |
| Cuban Nueva Trova and Rap | |
| Dialogues With Blackness | |
| Early Representations of Blackness | |
| Creole Heritage and Classical Music | |
| Latin Jazz | |
| Glossary | |
| Resource Guide | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| CD Track List | |
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Robin Moore is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the editor of the Latin American Music Review and, since 1992, he has conducted research in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Brazil. Dr. Moore is the author of Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (2006) among other works.
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