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The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.
Music, Race, and Nation
Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.
Cumbia!
Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes on different styles and meanings from place to place, and even, as the contributors to this collection show, from person to person. Cumbia is a different music among the working classes of northern Mexico, Latin American immigrants in New York City, Andean migrants to Lima, and upper-class Colombians...
A Latin American Music Reader
Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a collection of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as representative, outstanding, and influential in the field, each article appears in English translation. A detailed new introduction by León and Simonett both surveys and contextualizes the history of Latin American ethnomusicology, opening the door for readers energized by the musical forms brought and nurtured by immigrants from throughout Latin America. Contributors include Marina Alonso Bolaños, Gonzalo Camacho Díaz, José Jorge de Carvalho, Claudio F. Díaz, Rodrigo Cantos Savelli Gomes, Juan Pablo González, Rubén López-Cano, Angela Lühning, Jorge Martínez Ulloa, Maria Ignêz Cruz Mello, Julio Mendívil, Carlos Miñana Blasco, Raúl R. Romero, Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros, Carlos Sandroni, Carolina Santamaría-Delgado, Rodrigo Torres Alvarado, and Alejandro Vera.
De parranda
"El periodismo musical se ha desvanecido y hoy apenas aparece en las secciones de farándula de los medios, enfrentando su peor crisis de relato. Este libro quiere ampliar las narrativas del periodismo cultural musical a partir de un ejercicio de escucha y conexión con los viajes, los instrumentos, los discos, los ritmos y el sentir de la gente con su música. Historias que suenan a vallenato, a porro y a esa mezcla contemporánea de sonidos tradicionales con la movida musical urbana." -- Contracarátula.
Los combates de la ironía
En estos tiempos, donde el pensamiento único de corte pretendidamente progresista se nos impone bajo el dictado de lo políticamente correcto, los usos de la ironía nos permiten un campo idóneo de resistencia. Nuestra única arma frente a unos tiempos de confusión en los que la posmodernidad fatua se retira hacia la premodernidad, es la irrisión y a ella debemos consagrar buena parte de nuestro tiempo como el acto de rebelión más acabado y puro. Esta rebelión exige conocer que existe un humor inocente y otro trascendente. [Texto de la editorial].
El bicentenario de la independencia de Colombia 2019 y los Retos de la celebración.
Memorias de los encuentros regionales preparatorios para la conmemoración del Bicentenaria de la Independencia, Sesión de trabajo en grupos regionales de las academias y centros de historia reunidos en el seminario-taller sobre Independencia: conclusiones, recomendaciones y líneas de acción, anexos.
Afro-Atlantic Dialogues
This book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Leading scholars of archaeology, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology draw upon extensive field experiences and archival investigations of black communities in North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa to challenge received paradigms in Afro-American anthropology. They employ dialogic approaches that demand both an awareness of the historical fashioning of anthropology's categories and selfreflexive, critical research and define a new agenda for the field. Paying close attention to power, politics, and the dynamism of never-finished, open-ended behavioral forms and symbolic repertoires, the contributors address colonialism, the slave trade, racism, ethnogenesis, New World nationalism, urban identity politics, the development of artworlds, musics and their publics, the emergence of new religious and ritual forms, speech genres, and contested historical representations. The authors offer sophisticated interpretations of cultural change, exchange, appropriation, and re-appropriation that challenge simplistic notions of culture.
