Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas

"Sounding Latin America studies popular music making by immigrants from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean in the United States. It focuses on the points of contact and divergence in music making that result from competing values informed by how modernity is experienced across the Americas: the relation of language to letters; cosmopolitanism; racial categories and adjacent traditions and notions of the past; citizenship and migrancy; globalization and belonging. First study of the intra-hemispheric, linked but divergent relations of "Latin" music to the US and Latin America Proposes a comparative method for understanding the relations of immigrants to minority groups in the US with music making as the center Book places aurality ("intersensory, affective, cognitive, discursive, material, perceptual, and rhetorical network") as central operation in the constitution of "music."--

About the author

Jairo Moreno is associate professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects and coeditor of Econophonia: Music, Value, and the Forms of Life.

Product details

• Authors: Jairo Moreno, Moreno Jairo
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9780226825687
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82568-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Big Issues in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Caribbean islands, Theory of music & musicology, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Theory of music and musicology