Listening in Detail - Performances of Cuban Music

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra T. Vazquez Klappentext Alexandra T. Vazquez is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University. 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2013
• EAN: 9780822354581
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5458-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries