ABSTRACT
Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda, are discussed. The scope of the contributors is vast as divergent musical styles such as the Macarena dace craze, Bob Marley's reggae music and the seductive strains of the tango are analyzed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Politics and Identity Argentina and Nicaragua
chapter 3|29 pages
Socially Conscious Music Forming the Social Conscience
Nicaraguan Música Testimonial and the Creation of a Revolutionary Moment
part II|98 pages
Locality and Interlocality
chapter 5|29 pages
Crossing Borders
Mexicana, Tejana, and Chicana Musicians in the United States and Mexico
chapter 8|21 pages
“Give Your Body Joy, Macarena”
Aspects of U.S. Participation in the “Latin” Dance Craze of the 1990s
part III|84 pages
Globalization and Mass Mediation
chapter 9|22 pages
Music and Place in the Brazilian Popular Imagination
The Interplay of Local and Global in the Mangue Bit Movement of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
chapter 12|25 pages
Doing the Samba on Sunset Boulevard
Carmen Miranda and the Hollywoodization of Latin American Music
