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Musical imagiNation : U.S.-Colombian identity and the Latin music boom /

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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 mus...

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Main Author: Cepeda, María Elena (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2010.
New York, New York : 2010
Subjects:
Music > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular music > Florida > Miami > History and criticism.
Popular music > Colombia > History and criticism.
Music trade > Florida > Miami.
Identity (Psychology) and mass media.
Musique > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Musique populaire > Floride > Miami > Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire > Colombie > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Industrie > Floride > Miami.
Identité (Psychologie) et médias.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
Music > Social aspects
Music trade
Popular music
Colombia
Florida > Miami
United States
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242), discographies (pages 243-244) , and index.
ISBN:9781441636614
1441636617
9780814772904
0814772900
0814772250
9780814772256