Music, race and nation : musica tropical in Colombia /

Durante mucho tiempo, uno de los favoritos en las pistas de baile en América Latina, los estilos porro, cumbia y vallenato que componen la música tropical de Colombia ahora disfrutan de un éxito internacional. ¿Cómo logró esta música, que tiene sus raíces en una región negra y marginal del país, des...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wade, Peter, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Series:Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • A Note on Recorded Music
  • 1. Introduction 1: National Identity
  • Race and Nation
  • Nation, Gender, Race, and Sexuality
  • Music, Identity, and Music Capitalism
  • 2. La Costa and Música Costeña in the Colombian Nation
  • The Colombian Nation
  • La Costa in the Nation
  • The Identity of La Costa
  • Colombian Popular Music and Costeño Music
  • 3. Origin Myths: The Historiography of Costeño Music
  • Cultural Dynamics in the Nineteenth Century
  • Porro
  • Cumbia
  • Vallenato
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Music, Class, and Race in La Costa, 1930-1950
  • Class in Barranquilla, 1920s-1940s
  • Changes in Music, 1920s-1940s
  • Music, Class, and Race in La Costa
  • 5. (Alegría! Costeño Music Hits the Heartland, 1940-1950
  • Bogotá and Medelln before Costeño Music
  • The Beginnings of Costeño Music in the Colombian Interior
  • Costeño Music: Reaction and Counterreaction
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The Golden Era of Costeño MusicCand After
  • 'Al Ritmo Paisa': The Recording Industry
  • Changes in Costeño Music, 1950-1980
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Costeños and Costeño Music in the Interior: Rejection and Adaptation, 1950s-1980s
  • Bogotá: Resistance
  • Medellín: 'More Costeño than La Costa'?
  • The Costeños in Bogotá and Medellín
  • Ownership, Embodiment, and Identity
  • 8. Multiculturalism and Nostalgia: The 1990s
  • Patterns of Consumption in the 1990s
  • Reviving Old Costeño Music
  • Costeño Music and Costeño Identity
  • A 'Multicultural' Nation
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Conclusion: Writing about Colombian Music
  • Appendix A: List of Interviewees
  • Appendix B: Musical Examples.