Music, Race, and Nation Musica Tropical in Colombia

Name: Music, Race, and Nation Musica Tropical in Colombia
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ISBN: 9780226868455

ISBN-10: 0226868451

ISBN-13: 9780226868455

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peter Wade

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Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's muacute;sica tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music--which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country--manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of muacute;sica tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 331
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface A Note on Recorded Music



Introduction



National Identity Race and Nation Nation, Gender, Race, and Sexuality Music, Identity, and Music Capitalism



La Costa and Musica Costena in the Colombian Nation


The Colombian Nation La Costa in the Nation


The Identity of La Costa Colombian Popular Music and Costeno Music



Origin Myths: The Historiography of Costeno Music


Cultural Dynamics in the Nineteenth Century Porro Cumbia Vallenato


Conclusion



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



(Alegria! Costeno Music Hits the Heartland, 1940-1950


Bogota and Medelln before Costeno Music


The Beginnings of Costeno Music in the Colombian Interior


Costeno Music: Reaction and Counterreaction


Conclusion



The Golden Era of Costeno MusicCand After "Al Ritmo Paisa": The Recording Industry Changes in Costeno Music, 1950-1980


Conclusion



Costenos and Costeno Music in the Interior: Rejection and Adaptation, 1950s-1980s Bogota: Resistance Medellin: "More Costeno than La Costa"?


The Costenos in Bogota and Medellin Ownership, Embodiment, and Identity



Multiculturalism and Nostalgia: The 1990s Patterns of Consumption in the 1990s


Reviving Old Costeno Music Costeno Music and Costeno Identity A "Multicultural" Nation


Conclusion



Conclusion: Writing about Colombian Music



List of Interviewees



Musical Examples


Notes References Cited


Index