Title Tropical riffs : Latin America and the politics of jazz / Jason Borge

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Kindred sounds and Latin cats -- La civilizada selva: Latin America and the Jazz Age -- Dark pursuits: Argentina, race, and jazz -- The anxiety of Americanization: jazz, samba, and bossa nova -- The hazards of hybridity: Afro-Cuban jazz, mambo, and revolution -- Liberation, disenchantment, and the afterlives of jazz -- The cruelty of jazz Summary "In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics, and intellectuals -- who often understood jazz to stem from social conditions similar to their own -- the profound penetration into the fabric of everyday life of musicians like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker represented the promises of modernity while simultaneously posing a threat to local and national identities. Brazilian antijazz rhetoric branded jazz as a problematic challenge to samba and emblematic of Americanization. In Argentina, jazz catalyzed discussions about musical authenticity, race, and national culture, especially in relation to tango. And in Cuba, the widespread popularity of Chano Pozo and Dámaso Pérez Prado popularity challenged the United States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas, bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "America's art form" was, and remains, a transnational project and a collective idea."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Jazz -- Social aspects -- Latin America Jazz -- Latin America -- History and criticism Jazz -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz Jazz Jazz -- Social aspects Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017044574 ISBN 9780822372332 0822372339

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