Reflections on the Veracruz Son Jarocho: Images, Politics and Selected Themes of a Mexican Music and Dance Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781789973068 / Angielski

Claudio Canaparo; Randall Kohl

Opis

Once associated principally with the Veracruz countryside, the son jarocho music and dance tradition is now establishing itself as a twenty-first-century urban practice caught in a struggle between firmly established customs and newly adaptive strategies. This book offers an overview of the music's history and musical characteristics.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - An analysis and interpretation of photographic representations of son jarocho - The business of son jarocho- A musical analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire - A textual analysis of selected son jarocho repertoire - Select son jarocho participants: Past and present - The Movimiento Jaranero - Analysis of selected themes - Conclusions and additional comments.

O autorze

Randall C. Kohl is on the Music Faculty of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers). He received his BA in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai´i at Manoa and a Doctorate in History and Regional Studies from the UV. He has published widely on the son jarocho tradition, the late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century Mexican guitarist Octaviano Yáñez and Hawaiian slack key guitar.