Borge Tropical Riffs

Latin America and the Politics of Jazz
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7233-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century, showing how throughout the region, jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borge, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.