Borge Jason Borge

Tropical Riffs (eBook, PDF)

Latin America and the Politics of Jazz

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Damaso Perez Prado popularity challenged the United States' monopoly on jazz. Outlining these hemispheric flows of ideas, bodies, and music, Borge elucidates how "e;America's art form"e; was, and remains, a transnational project and a collective idea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372332
• Artikelnr.: 54790886

Autorenporträt

Jason Borge is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Kindred Sounds and Latin Cats  1
1. La Civilizada Selva: Latin America and the Jazz Age  13
2. Dark Pursuits: Argentina, Race, and Jazz  51
3. The Anxiety of Americanization: Jazz, Samba, and Bossa Nova  89
4. The Hazards of Hybridity: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mambo, and Revolution  131
5. Liberation, Disenchantment, and the Afterlives of Jazz  163
Conclusion. The Cruelty of Jazz  195
Notes  201
Bibliography  237
Index  261