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 Listening to Salsa written by Frances R. Aparicio and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms.
Download or read book Sounding Salsa written by Christopher Washburne and published by Studies in Latin America & Car. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commercial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.Sounding Salsa addresses a range of issues, musical and social. Musically, Washburne examines sound structure, salsa aesthetics, and performance practice, along with the influences of Puerto Rican music. Socially, he considers the roles of the illicit drug trade, gender, and violence in shaping the salsa experience. Highly readable, Sounding Salsa offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on a musical movement that became a social phenomenon.
Download or read book Three Puerto Rican songs written by Morris Lang and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Listening to Salsa written by Frances R. Aparicio and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view "that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class."
Download or read book Songs of the Tropics the Peasants los Gibaros written by Byron Reed and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shake It Morena written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen T. Bernier-Grand grew up in Puerto Rico, and in Shake It, Morena! she shares her good times with us. The book is a potpourri of songs, riddles, stories and games, all viewed through the experiences of a young girl. We follow her from the time she awakens in the morning and through her school day. We see her friends and family and learn about her customs and language—all while singing and playing!
Download or read book Music in Puerto Rico written by Donald Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thompson (emeritus music, U. of Puerto Rico) compiles a small sampling of the writing about music on the Caribbean island, most in Spanish, from conquest accounts of aboriginal music in the 1490s century to popular music critics in the 1990s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Great Woman Singer written by Licia Fiol-Matta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"—an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.
Download or read book Popular and Traditional Songs of Puerto Rico Cuba Mexico and Spain written by Allena Luce and published by . This book was released on 1979-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puerto Rico Sings written by José Enrique Pedreira and published by . This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). An album of 11 of Puerto Rico's best-loved songs with English and original Spanish text. Includes: La Borinquena * La Roca de la Laguna * Felices Dias * Mi Campes No. 1 * Alegria * En Tu Santo * Canto a la Madre * and more.
Download or read book Puerto Rico sings written by Olga Paul and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Music Social Classes and the National Question of Puerto Rico written by Angel G. Quintero Rivera and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Danzas of Puerto Rico for Two Guitars written by ELIAS BARREIRO and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of danzas by five of the most important nineteenth and twentieth century Puerto Rican composers: Juan Morel Campos, Luis R. Miranda, Angel Mislan, Manuel G. Tavarez and Braulio Dueno Colon. All songs are beautifully arranged by Elias Barreiro, with score and first and second guitar pull-out parts; all in standard notation. A companion CD recording of all nine songs is also included.
Download or read book Songs for Puerto Rico written by Ricardo Alonso and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
