Download or read book Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz 1900 1939 written by Basilio Serrano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicians from Puerto Rico played a substantial role in the development of jazz during the early years of the twentieth century, before and during the years surrounding the Harlem Renaissance. These jazz pioneers, including instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists, were products of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States and contributed to the early history of this uniquely American genre. In this study, author Basilio Serrano provides a detailed look at the lives of these men and women and their contributions to the development of jazz and Latin jazz. Serrano explores how the music of Puerto Rico helped to shape them and offers a comprehensive review of the bands in which they played, studying specialists in a variety of instruments as well as band leaders and composers. This group included notable figures such as Fernando Arbello, the Bayron sisters, the Rivera family, Louis King Garcia, Joe Loco, Juan and Paco Tizol, Augusto and Willie Rodriguez, Augusto Coen, and Cesar Concepcion. Covering a period from 1900 to 1939, Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 19001939 presents the stories of early Puerto Rican jazz musicians whose contributions to the genre have previously been overlooked.
Download or read book Puerto Rican Women from the Jazz Age Stories of Success written by Basilio Serrano and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book may seem unusual to some since there may be those who believe that Puerto Rican women may not have entered the jazz milieu during its early history. Nevertheless, an aim of the book is to dispel this and other false generalizations. The contents of this volume will document how Puerto Rican women were not only present in early jazz but how they played trailblazing and innovative roles and contributed to the emergence of the genre in the States and abroad. This work will present information that is confirmable through a variety of sources. The book may not be the definitive work on the subject but will serve as a starting point to: -document the success and achievement of several Puerto Rican women from the jazz age -consider the different strategies used for success in jazz and film by women -illustrate the evolution of various careers -consider the different personal circumstances under which success was achieved -consider how women in contemporary jazz and film can learn from their predecessors -provide women: older, young, and youthful, examples of success with documentary evidence on how to achieve Book Organization The book is organized into sections that cover a brief history of significant Puerto Rican women in music and the performing arts followed by biographical descriptions of pioneering women in jazz and film. The book also contains a brief discussion on Puerto Rican women in jazz today followed by a discussion surrounding issues affecting women in the arts today. Throughout the text there is commentary on the situations facing women, especially, male chauvinism, colonialism, racism, and anti-women prejudice in jazz. Every effort was made to include only facts that are easily confirmable. Unsupported tales or questionable events are avoided to ensure that the material contained in the volume can be used for teaching purposes and for curriculum development when credit is given to this work. In the process of developing the central theme of this volume, special effort was made to document those experiences where Puerto Rican women collaborate with members of the African American community to confirm how the cross-cultural collaboration resulted beneficial to both ethnic peoples. The book will detail the many instances where members of the African-American community assisted the fledgling Puerto Rican artists achieve success and stardom. Figures such as Helen Elise Smith, David J. Martin, Will Marion Cook, Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones, and other distinguished African-Americans are described. My hope is that this information will be added to historic works in African-American Studies.
Download or read book Global Jazz written by Clarence Bernard Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Jazz: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that explores the global impact of jazz, detailing the evolution of the African American musical tradition as it has been absorbed, transformed, and expanded across the world’s historical, political, and social landscapes. With more than 1,300 annotated entries, this vast compilation covers a broad range of subjects, people, and geographic regions as they relate to interdisciplinary research in jazz studies. The result is a vivid demonstration of how cultures from every corner of the globe have situated jazz—often regarded as America’s classical music—within and beyond their own musical traditions, creating new artistic forms in the process. Global Jazz: A Research and Information Guide presents jazz as a common musical language in a global landscape of diverse artistic expression.
Download or read book New York and the International Sound of Latin Music 1940 1990 written by Benjamin Lapidus and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean come together to make music. In this book, Benjamin Lapidus seeks to recognize all of those musicians under one mighty musical sound, especially those who have historically gone unnoticed. Based on archival research, oral histories, interviews, and musicological analysis, Lapidus examines how interethnic collaboration among musicians, composers, dancers, instrument builders, and music teachers in New York City set a standard for the study, creation, performance, and innovation of Latin music. Musicians specializing in Spanish Caribbean music in New York cultivated a sound that was grounded in tradition, including classical, jazz, and Spanish Caribbean folkloric music. For the first time, Lapidus studies this sound in detail and in its context. He offers a fresh understanding of how musicians made and formally transmitted Spanish Caribbean popular music in New York City from 1940 to 1990. Without diminishing the historical facts of segregation and racism the musicians experienced, Lapidus treats music as a unifying force. By giving recognition to those musicians who helped bridge the gap between cultural and musical backgrounds, he recognizes the impact of entire ethnic groups who helped change music in New York. The study of these individual musicians through interviews and musical transcriptions helps to characterize the specific and identifiable New York City Latin music aesthetic that has come to be emulated internationally.
Download or read book Made in Puerto Rico written by Hugo R. Viera-Vargas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of 20th and 21st century popular music in Puerto Rico. The essays in this volume, written by both local experts and leading scholars, contextualize under-researched areas of Puerto Rican popular music-making in relation to ideologies, aesthetics, and symbolism, and propose new ways of thinking about Puerto Rican musical cultures. A groundbreaking introduction to Puerto Rican musical culture, the volume covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Puerto Rico, while also going beyond conventional narratives. Rather than simply providing histories of key genres, these insightful essays focus on the ways in which Puerto Rican musicians reimagine their distinctive musical language as it transmutes from local practices into global expressions. Offering both a survey of Puerto Rican popular music and pathways into deeper critical inquiry, Made in Puerto Rico is an essential resource for scholars and students of music and of Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin American, and African Diaspora Studies.
Download or read book Latin Jazz written by Christopher Washburne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the perspective of a long-time jazz insider, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz corrects the record, providing a historical account that embraces the genre's international nature and explores the dynamic interplay of economics, race, ethnicity, and nationalism that shaped it.
Download or read book Dan Zanes House Party written by Dan Zanes and published by Young Voyageur. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a huge collection of folk songs along with inspiration to start your own family band. Too often, new parents eager to share their love of music with their young children feel their options are limited to cuddly singing dinosaurs and well-meaning humans whose understanding of children’s music starts with “Kumbaya” and ends with “Puff the Magic Dragon.” For many sane adults, these choices are more abrasive than the most aggro noise-rock of their college years. Dan Zanes has spent the past 20 years creating a truly compelling body of children's music that music-loving parents can also get behind. A former 1980s indie rocker, Zanes' 13 children's albums have gained wide praise for their authentic arrangements and preservation of America's folk traditions. In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award–winning Zanes has curated a rich selection of folk songs that comprise an essential musical cross-section of the American experience and its multicultural, immigrant underpinnings. The selections include the standard songs we all know and love, along with folk classics. Each song is accompanied by a brief narrative on its historical context, followed by lyrics, notation, and chords. Among the songs you'll learn to play: "Erie Canal," "Pay Me My Money Down," "Titanic," "Waltzing Matilda," "The Farmer Is the One," "Wabash Cannonball," "Sloop John B.," "Old Joe Clark," "Skip to My Lou," "King Kong Kitchie," and "We Shall Not Be Moved." Dan Zanes' House Party! also includes informational sidebars throughout to give families the basics needed to pick up instruments and learn to more fully enjoy music as a family band. And in the back of the book, you'll find chord charts for guitar, ukele, and mandolin. More than just a collection of songs, Dan Zanes’ House Party! is part music book, part history lesson, and a work that all families can enjoy—together.
Download or read book Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons written by Aaron Lefkovitz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy, with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music. Linking each performer to twentieth century U.S., African-American, and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies, Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 connects Horne, Dandridge, and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music’s internationally-routed politics. Through a close reading of Horne's, Dandridge's, and Latifah’s films and popular music, the performers tie to historic black-transnational caricatures, from the “tragic mulatto” to Sapphire, Mammy, and Jezebel, and additional, non-white female performers, from Josephine Baker to Halle Berry, maneuvering within transnational popular culture industrial matrices and against white supremacist and hetero-patriarchal forces.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Afro Latin American Studies written by Bernd Reiter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies. Afro-Latins as a civilization developed during the period of slavery, obtaining cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, while today they are enriched by new social configurations derived from contemporary migrations from Africa. The essays collected in this volume speak to scientific production that has been promoted in the region from the humanities and social sciences with the aim of understanding the phenomenon of the African diaspora as a specific civilizing element. With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this Handbook features original, authoritative articles organized in four coherent parts: • Disciplinary Studies; • Problem Focused Fields; • Regional and Country Approaches; • Pioneers of Afro-Latin American Studies. The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies will not only serve as the major reference text in the area of Afro-Latin American Studies but will also provide the agenda for future new research.
Download or read book My Music Is My Flag written by Ruth Glasser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of the mostly working-class Puerto Rican musicians who struggled to make a living during this period with those of their compatriots and the other ethnic groups with whom they shared the cultural landscape. Through recorded songs and live performances, Puerto Rican musicians were important representatives for the national consciousness of their compatriots on both sides of the ocean. Yet they also played with African-American and white jazz bands, Filipino or Italian-American orchestras, and with other Latinos. Glasser provides an understanding of the way musical subcultures could exist side by side or even as a part of the mainstream, and she demonstrates the complexities of cultural nationalism and cultural authenticity within the very practical realm of commercial music. Illuminating a neglected epoch of Puerto Rican life in America, Glasser shows how ethnic groups settling in the United States had choices that extended beyond either maintenance of their homeland traditions or assimilation into the dominant culture. Her knowledge of musical styles and performance enriches her analysis, and a discography offers a helpful addition to the text.
Download or read book Jazz and Puerto Rican Traditional Music written by Pedro Lavezzari and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many musical styles around the world have been born from struggle and search for cultural identity. The same idea applies to Jazz and the Afro-Caribbean music created within the African diaspora and influenced by Latin and European styles in the United States. More recently, the meaning of diaspora has been used to refer to a group of people and some aspects of their culture (Rivera 2010, 104). For older and newer generations of Puerto Rican musicians two traditions have intersected to create a modern form of expression that reaffirms Puerto Rico's musical creativity and contemporary tendency. In 1989 Warren Pinckney wrote the last known paper about jazz made by Puerto Ricans. Besides Warren Pinckney's article, Puerto Rican Jazz and the Incorporation of Folk Music: An Analysis of New Musical Direction, (1989) I have not found another paper or essay published specifically about jazz music made by Puerto Ricans. The contribution and innovation of these musicians and rhythms has been overlooked in most cases or even completely neglected in the literature. This thesis will explore the musical influence jazz has had in traditional Puerto Rican music and vice versa. It will also discuss the modernization and revitalization of traditional Puerto Rican music by incorporating jazz, providing a new visualization of Latin American music. The field research undergirding this thesis was driven by three goals: first, to demonstrate the contribution of Puerto Rican musicians to contemporary Jazz and Latin Jazz; second, to determine how movement back and forth between the United States and the island has fueled both jazz and traditional music; and third, to describe how this movement has revitalized and modernized Puerto Rican musical traditions. What has emerged is a story that follows an outline of traditional Puerto Rican music and Jazz tradition being melded together. It is a statement of musical identity that has represented jazz musicians on the island for decades. Some of th
Download or read book Pioneros written by Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those Puerto Rican migrants who established themselves in New York City between the 1890s and the end of World War II-we capture a glimpse of their daily lives and of their individual and collective stories. This rich collection of images from the Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College helps to examine the history of the Puerto Rican community at a time when it was spreading its roots in New York City's social, political, cultural, and economic life.
Download or read book Boricua Jazz la Historia Del Jazz Puertorrique o written by Wilbert Sostre Maldonado and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro Boricua Jazz pretende documentar los aportes de los puertorriqueños a la historia del Jazz, desde los pioneros que estuvieron presente en la infancia de esta expresión musical hasta las nuevas generaciones de virtuosos. La información en las biografías es tan solo un resumen de los puntos más relevantes en la trayectoria de cada músico y en algunos casos incluimos discografia. La cantidad de los datos biográficos y discográficos incluidos en el libro dependió de varios factores; disponibilidad de información en los medios, respuesta del artista a requerimiento de información y pertinencia de la información. Se realizaron varias entrevistas a músicos y otras personalidades que suministraron datos valiosos para la redacción de Boricua Jazz, entre ellos; Gonchi Sifre, Jimmy Rivera, Julio César Rivera, Freddie Gumbs, Mark Monts de Oca, José Furito Ríos, Wito Morales, Héctor Matos, Chiro Álvarez, Jerry González, Chembo Corniel, Charlie Sepulveda, Tiko Ortiz, Janice Maisonet, Pete Rodríguez, Ruben Cabán, Isaac Lausell, Antonio Luis Orta, Gabriel Rodríguez, Raul Maldonado, Brenda Hopkins, Carmen Noemi. Otros músicos nos enviaron información y biografias a través de medios electrónicos.El primer capítulo de Boricua Jazz presenta un breve resumen de los inicios del Jazz en Nueva Orleans a modo de proveer un trasfondo histórico para aquellas personas no aficionadas al Jazz o que recién descubren y comienzan a disfrutar de esta música. Interesados en una historia más detallada del Jazz le recomendamos los libros sobre el tema que encontrarán en la bibliografía.En el segundo capítulo les presentamos información resumida de las formas musicales que fueron desarrollándose en Puerto Rico durante el siglo 19 y comienzos del siglo 20, y los primeros encuentros entre la música estadounidense y puertorriqueña. Sobre este tema, también se han publicado excelentes libros, algunos de los cuales utilizamos para Boricua Jazz.En el tercer y cuarto capítulo reseñamos los aportes de los pioneros del Jazz Boricua. Parte de la información en estos capítulos fue obtenida del libro 'Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900 - 1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz del autor Basilio Serrano, y fue complementada con información adicional obtenida de otras fuentes.El capítulo cinco se lo dedicamos a una de las figuras puertorriqueñas más importantes en el Jazz; el trombonista y compositor Juan Tizol. Tizol fue integrante de una de las mejores orquestas de Jazz en Estados Unidos, y compositor de estándares que re-introdujeron el elemento latino al jazz años antes del nacimienrto del llamado latin jazz.En el capitulo seis nos movemos entre el jazz y la salsa, destacando las trayectorias de músicos boricuas que aportaron en ambas vertientes musicales y en el jazz latino. Debemos establecer que debido a las migraciones de puertorriqueños a los Estados Unidos durante todo el siglo 20 hasta la actualidad, en Boricua Jazz incluimos las biografías dé músicos nacidos en Puerto Rico y de aquellos con descendencia boricua nacidos en los Estados Unidos.El capítulo siete reseña la historia de dos organizaciones de extrema importancia durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970 para el desarrollo del gusto por el Jazz en Puerto Rico; el San Juan Jazz Workshop y el Taller de Jazz Don Pedro. Sin estas organizaciones y los músicos que participaron en ellas, la escena del Jazz en la actualidad, con todos sus festivales y conciertos, no hubiera sido posible.Años de exposición al Jazz, gracias al San Juan Jazz Workshop y al Taller de Jazz Don Pedro, tienen como consecuencia lo que relatamos en el capítulo ocho, 'Festivales y Conciertos en Puerto Rico'. El capítulo nueve, 'Bomba Jazz', propone el surgimiento de un Jazz Latino genuinamente Boricua. Una nueva generación de virtuosos puertorriqueños comienzan a fusionar de forma más balanceada los sonidos folclóricos de Puerto Rico con el Jazz.El capítulo diez, nos trae al presente con jóvenes jazziztas en el siglo 21.
Download or read book Puerto Rican Music Following the Spanish American War written by Catherine Dower and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boricua Jazz written by Wilbert Sostre and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-28 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro Boricua Jazz pretende documentar los aportes de los puertorriqueños a la historia del Jazz, desde los pioneros que estuvieron presente en la infancia de esta expresión musical hasta las nuevas generaciones de virtuosos. La información en las biografías es tan solo un resumen de los puntos más relevantes en la trayectoria de cada músico y en algunos casos incluimos discografia. La cantidad de los datos biográficos y discográficos incluidos en el libro dependió de varios factores; disponibilidad de información en los medios, respuesta del artista a requerimiento de información y pertinencia de la información. Se realizaron varias entrevistas a músicos y otras personalidades que suministraron datos valiosos para la redacción de Boricua Jazz, entre ellos; Gonchi Sifre, Jimmy Rivera, Julio César Rivera, Freddie Gumbs, Mark Monts de Oca, José Furito Ríos, Wito Morales, Héctor Matos, Chiro Álvarez, Jerry González, Chembo Corniel, Charlie Sepulveda, Tiko Ortiz, Janice Maisonet, Pete Rodríguez, Ruben Cabán, Isaac Lausell, Antonio Luis Orta, Gabriel Rodríguez, Raul Maldonado, Brenda Hopkins, Carmen Noemi. Otros músicos nos enviaron información y biografias a través de medios electrónicos.El primer capítulo de Boricua Jazz presenta un breve resumen de los inicios del Jazz en Nueva Orleans a modo de proveer un trasfondo histórico para aquellas personas no aficionadas al Jazz o que recién descubren y comienzan a disfrutar de esta música. Interesados en una historia más detallada del Jazz le recomendamos los libros sobre el tema que encontrarán en la bibliografía.En el segundo capítulo les presentamos información resumida de las formas musicales que fueron desarrollándose en Puerto Rico durante el siglo 19 y comienzos del siglo 20, y los primeros encuentros entre la música estadounidense y puertorriqueña. Sobre este tema, también se han publicado excelentes libros, algunos de los cuales utilizamos para Boricua Jazz.En el tercer y cuarto capítulo reseñamos los aportes de los pioneros del Jazz Boricua. Parte de la información en estos capítulos fue obtenida del libro 'Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900 - 1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz del autor Basilio Serrano, y fue complementada con información adicional obtenida de otras fuentes.El capítulo cinco se lo dedicamos a una de las figuras puertorriqueñas más importantes en el Jazz; el trombonista y compositor Juan Tizol. Tizol fue integrante de una de las mejores orquestas de Jazz en Estados Unidos, y compositor de estándares que re-introdujeron el elemento latino al jazz años antes del nacimienrto del llamado latin jazz.En el capitulo seis nos movemos entre el jazz y la salsa, destacando las trayectorias de músicos boricuas que aportaron en ambas vertientes musicales y en el jazz latino. Debemos establecer que debido a las migraciones de puertorriqueños a los Estados Unidos durante todo el siglo 20 hasta la actualidad, en Boricua Jazz incluimos las biografías dé músicos nacidos en Puerto Rico y de aquellos con descendencia boricua nacidos en los Estados Unidos.El capítulo siete reseña la historia de dos organizaciones de extrema importancia durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970 para el desarrollo del gusto por el Jazz en Puerto Rico; el San Juan Jazz Workshop y el Taller de Jazz Don Pedro. Sin estas organizaciones y los músicos que participaron en ellas, la escena del Jazz en la actualidad, con todos sus festivales y conciertos, no hubiera sido posible.Años de exposición al Jazz, gracias al San Juan Jazz Workshop y al Taller de Jazz Don Pedro, tienen como consecuencia lo que relatamos en el capítulo ocho, 'Festivales y Conciertos en Puerto Rico'. El capítulo nueve, 'Bomba Jazz', propone el surgimiento de un Jazz Latino genuinamente Boricua. Una nueva generación de virtuosos puertorriqueños comienzan a fusionar de forma más balanceada los sonidos folclóricos de Puerto Rico con el Jazz.El capítulo diez, nos trae al presente con jóvenes jazziztas en el siglo 21.
Download or read book Puerto Rican Journal 1937 1939 written by Frances Adkins Hall and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: