Listening in Detail - Performances of Cuban Music

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra T. Vazquez is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University. Klappentext Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. Zusammenfassung Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition! Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Performing Anthology: The Mystical Qualities of Alfredo Rodríguez's Cuba Linda 43 2. "Una Escuela Rara": The Graciela School 93 3. Itinerant Outbursts: The Grunt of Dámaso Pérez Prado 131 4. Visual Arrangements, Sonic Impressions: The Cuban Musical Documentaries of Rogelio París and Sara Gómez 165 5. Cold War Kids In Concert 203 Notes 235 Bibliography 301 Index 319

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra T Vazquez, Alexandra T. Vazquez
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2013
• EAN: 9780822354550
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5455-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries