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Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music

Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music

Vazquez, Alexandra T.

Hardcover

Series: Refiguring American Music

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesWorld Music

ISBN10: 0822354551
ISBN13: 9780822354550
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jun 3 2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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 Cuban music 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. Listening in detail 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 Rodríguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year career of the vocalist Graciela Pérez, the signature grunt of the Mambo King Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban music documentaries of the 1960s, and late-twentieth-century concert ephemera.

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