A study of Afro-descendant music in New Spain hits the right note. Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico: Vocality and Beyond, Sarah Finley, 2024, Vanderbilt University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Tag: Music
Sounds of subversion
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Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music, Eunice Rojas, 2024, The University of Alabama Press
Categories: North America, United States
Genre vs gender
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Puerto Rican women singers have used their voices to challenge what it means to be a female performer
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Cross-border beats
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Transnational influences upon Argentine popular music challenge notions of cultural imperialism
Categories: Argentina, South America
The sound of damage
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A study of Cuban composer Emilio Grenet helps to illustrate the profound damage done by the continued US embargo
Roots and routes
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As cumbia has grown in popularity across the world, it has been transformed
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States
Mixed up nation
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The musicians of Rio have used fusion and miscegenation to express a distinct Brazilian national identity
Categories: Brazil, South America
Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
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Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship
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Categories: Brazil, South America
River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
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Categories: Brazil, South America