Sounding Latin Music, Hearing The Americas (Big Issues In Music) - 9780226825687

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.""--

• | Author: Jairo Moreno
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: May 16, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 374 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 022682568X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226825687