- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: NYU Press (January 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 081471692X
- ISBN-13: 978-0814716922
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.
Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.
Musical ImagiNation provides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan Miami. More notably, placed in this context, the book discusses the creative work and media personas of talented Colombian artists Shakira, Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, and Carlos Vives. In her examination of the transnational figures and music that illuminate the recent shifts in the meanings attached to Colombian identity both in the United States and Latin America, Cepeda argues that music is a powerful arbitrator of memory and transnational identity.
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