Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom Contributor(s): Cepeda, Maria Elena (Author) |
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ISBN: 081471692X ISBN-13: 9780814716922 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Latin - Music | History & Criticism - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies |
Dewey: 781.640 |
LCCN: 2009030334 |
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.98" W x 8.96" (0.83 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Miami, Florida - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and vallenato stars. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cepeda, Maria Elena: - María Elena Cepeda is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College. |