Music, Popular Culture, Identities
Richard A. Young
Jan 2002 · Rodopi
Ebook
360
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About this ebook
Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other identities, the essays touch upon popular traditions and contemporary forms from several different regions of the world: political engagement in Italian popular music; flamenco in Spain; the challenge of traditional music in Bulgaria; boerenrock and rap in Holland; Israeli extreme heavy metal; jazz and pop in South Africa, and musical hybridity and politics in Côte d'Ivoire. The collection includes essays about Latin America: on the Mexican corrido, the Caribbean, popular dance music in Cuba, and bossanova from Brazil. Communities of a cultural diaspora in North America are discussed in essays on Somali immigrant and refugee youth and Iranians in exile in the US. Grounded in cultural theory and a specialized knowledge of a particular popular musical practice, each author has written a critical study on the mix of music and identity in a particular social practice and context.
Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other iden...
About the author
Richard Young is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Alberta. Current research focuses mainly on Argentina, in particular on tango and on representations of urban life in Buenos Aires in contemporary fiction. He is author of Octaedro en cuatro tiempos: texto y tiempo en un libro de Cortázar (Ottawa) and editor of Latin American Postmodernisms (Rodopi). He edits Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.
Richard Young is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Alberta. Current research focuses mainly on Argentina, in particular on tango and on representations of urban life in Buenos Aires in contemporary fiction. He is author of Octaedro en cuatro tiempos: texto y tiem...
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