[PDF] Music In Puerto Rico eBook

Author : Ruth Glasser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520208900

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Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of the mostly working-class Puerto Rican musicians who struggled to make a living during this period with those of their compatriots and the other ethnic groups with whom they shared the cultural landscape. Through recorded songs and live performances, Puerto Rican musicians were important representatives for the national consciousness of their compatriots on both sides of the ocean. Yet they also played with African-American and white jazz bands, Filipino or Italian-American orchestras, and with other Latinos. Glasser provides an understanding of the way musical subcultures could exist side by side or even as a part of the mainstream, and she demonstrates the complexities of cultural nationalism and cultural authenticity within the very practical realm of commercial music. Illuminating a neglected epoch of Puerto Rican life in America, Glasser shows how ethnic groups settling in the United States had choices that extended beyond either maintenance of their homeland traditions or assimilation into the dominant culture. Her knowledge of musical styles and performance enriches her analysis, and a discography offers a helpful addition to the text.

Author : Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0819563080

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The pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms.

Author : Donald Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810839148

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Thompson (emeritus music, U. of Puerto Rico) compiles a small sampling of the writing about music on the Caribbean island, most in Spanish, from conquest accounts of aboriginal music in the 1490s century to popular music critics in the 1990s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822375257

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Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.

Author : Rey McElhinney
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2021-06-11
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Music is at the heart of Puerto Rican culture. From the minute you get off the plane, music fills the air. It's a keystone of Puerto Rican culture and entertainment - whether you're walking the streets of San Juan, celebrating at a small-town festival, or spending a day at the beach. In this book, you will find activities organized according to different types of rhythms that are based on a mix of African and European musical traditions: -An introduction to the five music genres and dances we cover in this guide - "jíbaro" music, "bomba", "plena", "salsa" and "Reggaeton". -Links to videos describing the dances associated with each rhythm. -Sample music schedules from the most relevant festivals and festivities. -Lists of new, high-quality, family-oriented, free musical events not even known to residents. -List of venues where you can dance to the types of rhythms you want to enjoy. -Hard to find places on the Internet where you can find out about current events. -Sample music programs from the most relevant festivals and festivities. -Descriptions of places and landmarks related to music and dance.

Author : Licia Fiol-Matta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822373467

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Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and political agency by challenging expectations of how they should look, sound, and act. Fiol-Matta also breaks with conceptualizations of the female pop voice as spontaneous and intuitive, interrogating the notion of "the great woman singer" to deploy her concept of the "thinking voice"—an event of music, voice, and listening that rewrites dominant narratives. Anchored in the work of Lacan, Foucault, and others, Fiol-Matta's theorization of voice and gender in The Great Woman Singer makes accessible the singing voice's conceptual dimensions while revealing a dynamic archive of Puerto Rican and Latin American popular music.

Author : Frances R. Aparicio
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819569941

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Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) For Anglos, the pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms. Frances R. Aparicio places this music in context by combining the approaches of musicology and sociology with literary, cultural, Latino, and women's studies. She offers a detailed genealogy of Afro-Caribbean music in Puerto Rico, comparing it to selected Puerto Rican literary texts, then looks both at how Latinos/as in the US have used salsa to reaffirm their cultural identities and how Anglos have eroticized and depoliticized it in their adaptations. Aparicio's detailed examination of lyrics shows how these songs articulate issues of gender, desire, and conflict, and her interviews with Latinas/os reveal how they listen to salsa and the meanings they find in it. What results is a comprehensive view "that deploys both musical and literary texts as equally significant cultural voices in exploring larger questions about the power of discourse, gender relations, intercultural desire, race, ethnicity, and class."

Author : Maritza Ramirez
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2015-07-07
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ISBN : 9781511432597

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This book recommends tourists what to do in Puerto Rico when you want to have a good time. We share what are the places to listen to live music while enjoying your favorite drink, dance latin rhythms, learn how to dance, and attend local festivals to watch free performances by world renowned artists. The book has concise descriptions to help you decide among the wide range of musical experiences available in the island, whether you like troubadours, see lively folkloric dances, or dance Afro Caribbean rhythms in middle of the street. The Puerto Rico is Music! guide contains references to musical and dance traditions in a straight to the point, informative, practical, sometimes funny tone as seen by a local. Over 200 fiestas patronales and festivals are reviewed with sample schedules of events where you can watch free performances of world-renowned artists. On the guide's 132 pages you will find activities organized according to different types of rhythms that are based on a mix of African and European musical traditions: * An introduction to the five music genres and dances we cover in this guide - jíbaro music, bomba, plena, salsa and reggaeton. * Links to videos describing the dances associated to each rhythm.* Sample music schedules from the most relevant festivals and festivities.* Lists of new, high-quality, family-oriented, free musical events not even known to residents.* List of venues where you can dance to the types of rhythms you want to enjoy.* Hard to find places on the Internet where you can find out about current events.* Sample music programs from the most relevant festivals and festivities.* Descriptions of places and landmarks related to music and dance.This is a complement to your travel guide that will enhance the discussion about all things musical. The guide is written in first person and some portions are the author's view, such as the quality of an event or a place's security level. Read this guide if you are interested in knowing what the locals do.