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Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
Fern Dez L´hoeste
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Description for Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822354338
SKU
V9780822354338
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About Fern Dez L´hoeste
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste is Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Georgia State University. He is coeditor, with Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Eric Zolov, of Rockin' Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America. Pablo Vila is Professor of Sociology at Temple University. ... Read more
Reviews for Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
"Cumbia has mattered, matters, and will most likely continue to matter for the multitudes who create it, listen and dance to it, and debate it almost as a way of life. This collection is both a sonic roadmap and testimony to the imagination of people across the Americas as they make some sense of their many worlds through music."—Jairo Moreno, ... Read more