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Maria Elena Cepeda - Musical ImagiNation - 9780814716915 - V9780814716915
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Musical ImagiNation

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Description for Musical ImagiNation Hardback. Provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KLSC; AVG; JFC; KNTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.

Long associated with the pejorative clichés of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. In this pioneering study of the Miami music industry and Miami’s growing Colombian community, María Elena Cepeda boldly asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of popular media, music, and music video, Cepeda teases out issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and vallenato stars.
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814716915
SKU
V9780814716915
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About Maria Elena Cepeda
María Elena Cepeda is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College.

Reviews for Musical ImagiNation
Cepeda's analysis stands on its own strength, grounded in her explication of complex social contexts in which popular Colombian music is made and disseminated . . . She skillfully weaves analyses of race, gender, class, and nation and offers multiple readings of of singular texts or perfromances.
Hui Wilcox
Ethnic and Racial Studies
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