Interdisciplinary study of gender, culture, and music, deals with the gendering of music and with the ways music negotiates gender roles. It focuses mostly on Puerto Rican music, but also discusses pan-Caribbean genres and contemporaray transnational dance musics.
Interdisciplinary study of gender, culture, and music, deals with the gendering of music and with the ways music negotiates gender roles. It focuses mostly on Puerto Rican music, but also discusses pan-Caribbean genres and contemporaray transnational dance musics.
"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach…
"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach…
De geschiedenis van de muziek van latijns-Amerika en de integratie van de 'Latino' muziek in de verenigde Staten.
"An accessible combination of serious study and exciting pop reference, The Latin Beat explains each of the wildly varied Latin musical forms - bossa nova, cumbia, merengue, tango, ranchera, rumba, son, salsa - in the context of the countries in which they arose (Cuba, Brazil, P…