Tropical riffs : Latin America and the politics of jazz / Jason Borge.

Av: Språk: Engelska Utgivning: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018Beskrivning: ix, 266 sidor illustrationerInnehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • unmediated
Bärartyp:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822369905
Ämne: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 306.8425098 23/swe
SAB-klassifikation:
  • Oac
Innehåll:
La civilizada selva - Latin America and the jazz age ; Dark pursuits - Argentina, race and jazz ; The anxiety of Americanization - jazz, samba and bossa nova ; The hazards of hybridity - Afro-Cuban jazz, mambo and revolution ; Liberation, disenchantment and the afterlives of jazz
Sammanfattning: In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics, and intellectuals—who often understood jazz to stem from social conditions similar to their own—the profound penetration into the fabric of everyday life of musicians like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker represented the promises of modernity while simultaneously posing a threat to local and national identities. Brazilian antijazz rhetoric branded jazz as a problematic challenge to samba and emblematic of Americanization. In Argentina jazz catalyzed discussions about musical authenticity, race, and national culture, especially in relation to tango. And in Cuba, the widespread popularity of Chano Pozo and Dámaso Pérez Prado popularity challenged the United States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas, bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "America's art form" was, and remains, a transnational project and a collective idea
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La civilizada selva - Latin America and the jazz age ; Dark pursuits - Argentina, race and jazz ; The anxiety of Americanization - jazz, samba and bossa nova ; The hazards of hybridity - Afro-Cuban jazz, mambo and revolution ; Liberation, disenchantment and the afterlives of jazz

In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics, and intellectuals—who often understood jazz to stem from social conditions similar to their own—the profound penetration into the fabric of everyday life of musicians like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker represented the promises of modernity while simultaneously posing a threat to local and national identities. Brazilian antijazz rhetoric branded jazz as a problematic challenge to samba and emblematic of Americanization. In Argentina jazz catalyzed discussions about musical authenticity, race, and national culture, especially in relation to tango. And in Cuba, the widespread popularity of Chano Pozo and Dámaso Pérez Prado popularity challenged the United States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas, bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "America's art form" was, and remains, a transnational project and a collective idea

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