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Author Cepeda, Maria Elena

Title Musical ImagiNation : U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom
Published New York : NYU Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Colombian Connections: Tracing the Boundaries of the Colombian Musical ImagiNation; 1 La crisis colombiana: Contextualizing the Political Moment; 2 A Miami Sound Machine: Deconstructing the Latin(o) Music Boom of the Late 1990s; 3 Shakira as the Idealized Transnational Citizen: Media Perspectives on Colombianidad in Transition; 4 Florecita rockera: Gender and Representation in Latin(o) American Rock and Mainstream Media; 5 The Colombian Vallenato acá y allá: Allegory for a Musical ImagiNation
6 The Colombian Transcultural Aesthetic Recipe: Music Video in the "New" American StudiesAfterword: U.S.-Colombian Popular Music and Identity: Acknowledging the Transnational in the National; Notes; References; Discography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
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
Analysis Colombian
ImagiNation
Miami
Musical
crisis
dynamics
economic
immigration
metropolitan
ongoing
overview
political
provides
Notes Print version record
Subject Identity (Psychology) and mass media.
Music trade -- Florida -- Miami
Popular music -- Colombia -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Florida -- Miami -- History and criticism
Music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
Music -- Social aspects
Music trade
Popular music
Colombia
Florida -- Miami
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814772904
0814772900