Oye como va! [Elektronisk resurs] hybridity and identity in latino popular music / Deborah Pacini Hernandez.

• 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. 

• Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, 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 im. 

Ämnesord

Hispanic Americans -- Music -- Social aspects 

Popular music -- Social aspects -- United States 

Hispanic Americans - Music - Social aspects 

Popular music - Social aspects - United States 

Klassifikation

ML3917.U6 .P33 2010eb (LCC)

ML3917.U6 .P33 2010 (LCC)

ML3917.U6P33 2010 (LCC)

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