Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it reflects the social and economic dislocation of the poorest Dominicans.
Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it ref...
Traces the trajectories of various US Latino musical forms in a globalizing world, examining how the blending of Latin music reflects Latino/a American lives connecting across nations. This title explores the simultaneously powerful, vexing, and stimulating relationship between hybridity, music, and identity.
Traces the trajectories of various US Latino musical forms in a globalizing world, examining how the blending of Latin music reflects Latino/a America...
Listen Up When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va " in the 1960s, his popular song was called Latin even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended PuenteOCOs tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. Like Puente and Santana, Latino/a musicians have always blended musics from their homelands with other sounds in our multicultural society, challenging ideas of what Latin music is or ought to be. Waves of immigrants further complicate the...
Listen Up When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va " in the 1960s, his popular song was called Latin even though it was a fusion o...
